Teaching Speaking

            Speaking ability is the measure of knowledge a language so many learners always feel that it is harder than reading or speaking. When learners start to speak or communicate, their need to recognize pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and social and culture rules. Speaking happen in real time and when say it, it can not edit or revise like writing. The following ideas are how to teaching speaking to learner effectively. There are consist of   the principle of teaching speaking and the speaking activities in classroom.

            For teaching speaking, teaching should be aware of the differences between second language and foreign language learning context. In the second language learning context, learner have opportunities to use the target language in the language for the communication in the society but the foreign language learning context is difference. Learners have very few opportunities to use the target language outside the classroom. So the teacher take these information for considered when design the lesson plan. In teaching speaking, teacher must give learner practice with both fluency and accuracy moreover provides opportunities for learners to talk by using group work and pair work. Learners should talk as much as possible in the target language class during lessons. In addition the speaking task should involve negotiation for meaning that learners make progress by communicating in the target language. Because of the interaction provide learners trying to understand when their communicate situation.

  

            There are many activities to use in speaking classroom. The activities in speaking classroom should let learners speak and more communicate with the others. For example, information gap is activity that learners must be finding out the answers by asking their friends. Next one is the hot seat is the activity to encourage learner to speak in the rush time. The other is buzz group. Learners can quickly discuss anything from what they are going to read and what they want to do. Telling stories is a good technique for speaking, not only the learners use lot of language but also learners can tell stories all the time is real life. The last one is role-plays, it give learners to practice speaking before they must do in real communication.

            In conclusion, speaking is the one of way to communicate with the others people but is not easy for learners who learn language as the second and foreign language learning. In the classroom teacher may use the activities to give an opportunities for speaking and let’s them speak as much as possible. Evening that teacher have taught in class should support learner to use outside of the class.