Tugas Call season 10

A. Teaching Speaking

The goal of language is communication. So what wever language we learn, wherever we learn, and we never we learn, the goal of language learning is always aimed at using it for communication. Although we may use it only for the receptive puposes such as listening and reading but it is also part of communication.

For the productive skills like speaking and writing, the communication function is even mre crucial. In this section we will look at why speaking skills is important, how to teach the skills? What teacher should know in order to better the speaking activities in a language class. Let's start by looking at the following sites which presents some usiful tipps on how to choose actvities in a speaking class, and some considertion that teachers should know when planning a language instruction focusing on the teaching of speaking:

1. Oral Production in th second language classroom

Teaching speaking skills in a classroom is not without problem everywhere there must be problem whether little or big. Yet as teacher at least we have to prepared for such any problematic situtions. The following site about overcoming classroom problem in a speaking class suggests some practical tips and insigth that is very helpful for us as teachers.

2.Teaching speaking skills: Overcoming classroom Problem

There is also another article discussing some techniques that can be used for teaching speaking

3.Usefull techniques/activities for teaching speaking

B. Teaching Speaking with technology:

In recent years technology has beend used to assist both teaching and enhancing language learning. Certainly as language teacher we need to know when and how to use the technology for that purpose. The following presentation slides outlines some ideas about how the technology can be used to teach/improve speaking skills in an English class.

4. Using technology to teach speaking 

Now let's try and feel how it is like practising speaking/rehearshing with web-based leanguange learning technology.So, Go to this link below:

5. Web-based speaking practice  

You can login with your facebook account. having logged in you can start joining courses that you can select from various available ones. Then select a video. After that, you can start watching the video, learn the words, practice pronouncing the sentences, and record your own voices online. Then, you can compare your voice with the natives who speak in the video. Interesting right? Now...can you do that without technology? Will that be easier or more difficult without technology?

There are other alternative technologies that you can try and they are still counting I believe. Click below for such informations:
 
6. Teachnologies for teaching speaking

source from mr. Mokhamad Syaifudin, M.Ed, Ph.D in schology (call class)