2. What did we look at?
• Our focus is on Speaking and Listening skills
specifically in relation to Oral Language.
• Research Questions:
• 1.What is our current practice in the teaching of Speaking and
Listening skills in Oral Language?
• 2.How can we teach Speaking and Listening skills explicitly in
relation to Oral Language?
3. How did we do it?
• Gathering Evidence
We decided to gather evidence from a variety of sources:
• Explored school plan on Oral Language for details of teaching
Speaking and Listening skills including references to Teaching
Methodologies, Learner Experiences and Learner Outcomes
• Carried out a student focus group and/ or a student questionnaire to
determine attitude to and evidence of, the teaching and learning of
Speaking and Listening skills.
• Explored individual class planning including Cuntais Míosúla and
Fortnightly Schemes for evidence/data on the planning, teaching
and learning of Speaking and Listening skills.
4. What did we find out?
• -Our students want to do more pair and group
work
• -We need to explicitly teach speaking and
listening skills in discrete oral language time
• -All teachers wanted to adopt a ‘Whole School
Approach’ to speaking and listening skills
5. What are we going to do about it?
• -Timetable discrete oral language time across
our schools
• -Engage in the model of discrete oral language
lesson (Aine Cregan)when teaching speaking
and listening skills
• -Actively encourage group and pair work as
methodologies
