2. Agenda
• Aspects of Speaking and Writing
• Types of Speaking and Writing
• An example of Speaking and Writing
• Considerations for designing material for
Speaking and Writing
3. Aspects of Speaking and Writing
Speaking Writing
• Conversational discourse • Process and product
• Pronunciation • Interlanguage processes
(intonation, stress, rhythm)
• Authenticity
• Accuracy and fluency
• Affective factors • Complexity
• Clustering, redundancy, • Formality
reduced forms.
• Syntactical aspects
• Performance
(type of language, tempo) • Audience
4. Types of Speaking and Writing
Speaking Writing
• Imitative • Imitative
Display of writing
Talking to oneself
• Intensive • Intensive or controlled
• Responsive • Self-writing
• Transactional • Real writing
(Academic, Vocational,
• Interpersonal Personal)
• extensive
5. An example of speaking and writing
• Please, join your groups.
• From the short presentation you’ve seen so
far, and the understanding of the readings,
make one activity either of speaking or writing
for our group.
• Follow the following considerations….
7. Considerations for…
Speaking Writing
• Be sure you activate • Be sure you activate writing
speaking skills skills
• Set timing for the activity • Focus on one type of writing
you suggest preferably
• Focus on few aspects of • Account for authentic
speaking, don’t try to cover writing activities
many • Provide a process of writing
• Guarantee some individual • Determine what aspects of
practice before performing writing students must focus
• State your role as a teacher on the most
