1. TEACHING SPEAKING
By Aisyah Sunarwan
Phone. 081541222622
email. aisyahsunarwan@gmail.com

2. Teaching Speaking
Issues for discussion:
1. Characteristics of spoken
language
2. Principles for designing speaking
activities
3. Using group work in speaking
activities
4. Common types of speaking
activities

3. What are the characteristics of
spoken language?
• Speaking is a skill, just like
swimming, driving a car, or playing
ping-pong.
• Too often, in the traditional
classroom, the learning of English
has been relegated to linguistic s
knowledge only.

4. Characteristics of
spoken language
Spontaneity
• In most situations, people do not plan
ahead of time what they are going to say.
• Spontaneous means full of false starts
and repetitions incomplete sentences.
Time-constraint
The students produce unplanned
utterances in real time

5. Designing speaking tasks
• One important consideration:
Proficiency level of the students
(challenging but not too difficult.)
• If the task is too easy or too difficult,
the students may be demotivated.

6. Common characteristics in
successful speaking tasks
• Maximum foreign talk
• Even participation
• High motivation

7. Using group work in speaking
tasks
Advantages of using group work
• More opportunities
• More motivation
• More authenticity
• Different levels
• More cooperation

8. Type of speaking tasks
According to Littlewood, communicative
speaking activities can be divided into
two types: functional communication
activities, and social interaction
activities:

9. Structural Activities
Pre-C.A.
Quasi-com. Activities
(sent. pattern drills, dialogues, etc.)
Functional Com. Act.
Com. Act. (obtaining information)
Social Interaction Act.
(role-playing, problem-solving, etc.)
Information Gap, Choices & Feed-back)

10. Some types of speaking
activities
• Information-gap activities
• Dialogues and role-plays
• Activities using pictures
• Problem-solving activities
• Other speaking activities

11. Directions: Ask your partner what is in
his/her picture.
Fore example:
Student A: What’s in your picture?
Student B: There is __________. What’s
in your picture?
Student A: There is __________.

12. Conclusion
The most important aspect of preparing students
to speak in real life is to give them as many
opportunities as possible to practise producing
unplanned, spontaneous and meaningful speech
under time pressure.

13. That’s all
Thank you!