Get them speaking – get them speaking right. LLE Day
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Transcript of Get them speaking – get them speaking right. LLE Day
Jo Gakonga
www.elt-training.com
Get them speaking – get them speaking right.
Learning a language is a practical skill – to improve you have to practise
Undivided attention
Huge increase in potential talking time
Learner can choose topics and control the direction of the lesson
Individual needs can be addressed
Output and input
Corrective feedback
How do you keep them talking?
Relevant Interesting
The only way to learn a language is in a country where it is spoken.
Text chat talk
• Slows conversation down
• Gives thinking time
• Allows for easier correction
Speaking dictogloss
novelistremotedropping insecludedisolateddawnsolidly built
..concentrate on my ------ without any ------
..getting fed up with people ---ing the -------
It definitely prevents ---- from -------ing in
I --- much better ----
If I feel the need for ----- I can always --------
Whenever I ------ there’s a -------
1.Listen to the story
2.Retell the story
3.Look at some vocabulary
4.Listen again
5.Retell the story
6.Look at more phrases
7.(Listen again)
8.Retell the story.
Bring the outside in
Another of my favourite techniques is to tell something to a speaker of the language and have that person tell the same thing back to me in correct, natural form. I then tell the same thing again, bearing in mind the way in which I have just heard it. This cycle can repeat itself two or three times… An essential feature of this technique is that the text we are swapping back and forth originates with me, so that I control the content.
‘Earl Stevick’ activity from ‘Success with Foreign Languages’ (1989: 148):
Who was your favourite teacher?
If you could meet anyone in history, who would it be?
What is your first childhood memory?
Recording and analysing
conversation
Output and input
Corrective feedback
When is feedback most effective?
Hot correction –on the spot
When is feedback most effective?
Cold correction –after the event