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Speaking Pedagogy Workshop
Group Negotiation
What are the most important aspects of speaking instruction? Rank them from highest to lowest priority.
Discuss the following terms as they relate to the contexts in which you teach:
CommunicativeNeeds-basedTask-basedAuthentic
Discuss the following terms as they relate to the contexts in which you teach:
Fluency vs. AccuracyStrategies-based InstructionInteractional vs. TransactionalStudent-centered Teaching
What is the teacher’s role in teaching “speaking?”
Which of these speaking activities are “communicative”?
Listen-and-repeatInformation GapsSummary responseOral presentation/speechSkit/role play
Which of these speaking activities are “communicative”?
InterviewsGrammar drillsDebateDescribing imagesGiving directionsProblem-solving/Group
negotiation“Find someone who…”
Group Discussion
In groups of 4, share a speaking lesson or activity you have used before that worked well.
What were the communicative elements of that lesson or activity?
Micro vs. Macro Skills
Micro: pronunciation, reductions, stress patterns, intonation, grammar, phrasing
Macro: Body language, facial expression, connect ideas, register, situational communication, check for understanding
Error Correction
Local vs. Global ErrorsAffective FilterCommunicative
needs
Role of Pronunciation
Communicative
Stress patterns over individual soundsTop-down and bottom-up
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Strategies-based teaching
Students monitor their own production
Tell students the purpose beforehand to target metacognitive strategies
Mini-lesson on strategy before a lesson
Strategies: Cognitive and
Metacognitive
Which are which?
RepetitionMind mapsAssociationUnderlining key
words
Asking questionsPredictingMonitoringPlan/OrganizeEvaluate
Practice!Identify a task your students need. Designate a strategy to apply to the
task. Create a mini-lesson for the strategy. Design a communicative activity which
embeds a grammar point within the task.
Set clear objectives based on the students’ needs, communicative competence, and strategic learning.