Stimulating Students Appetite to speak fluently

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Stimulating Students Appetite to speak fluently

• By Sawsan Matar

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Stimulating Students appetite to speak fluently

• Outside the classroom, listening is used twice as
  often as speaking, which is in turn used twice as
  much as reading and writing.
• (Rivers, 1981)

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Stimulating Students appetite to speak fluently

• Inside the classroom, speaking and listening
  are the most often used skills
• (Brown, 1994).

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Stimulating Students appetite to speak fluently

• Speaking is an interactive process of
  constructing meaning that involves producing and
  receiving and processing information
• (Brown, 1994 Burns Joyce, 1997).

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• Language fluency is proficiency in a language ,
  most typically foreign language or another
  learned language. In this sense, "fluency"
  actually encompasses a number of related but
  separable skills
• Reading the ability to easily read and
  understand texts written in the language
• Writing the ability to formulate written texts
  in the language
• Comprehension the ability to follow and
  understand speech in the language
• Speaking the ability to speak in the language
  and be understood by its speakers

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Key Factors For successful speaking tasks

• Form-focused instruction attention to details of
  pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary. (elementary
  level)
• Meaning-focused instruction, opportunities to
  produce meaningful spoken messages with real
  communicative purposes. (pre-intermediate and
  intermediate level)
• Opportunities to improve fluency. (Upper
  intermediate advanced level)

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Development of Speaking Fluency

• This passes 3 modes of practice
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• 1- Imitation concentration of the controlled
  production of speech features based on the
  natural authentic input (audio, video, CAP)

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Development of Speaking Fluency

• 2- Rehearsed practice to achieve a form of
  stabilized yet modified speech patterns so that
  the learner can have easy access to the pattern
  when it is needed.

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Development of Speaking Fluency

• 3 Repetition of the same material or content
  until speech is fluent. Extemporaneous speech
  practice, which is more appropriate for advanced
  learners, integrates modified speech patterns
  into natural and creative speech

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Symptoms of fluency

• Fast speed of speaking
• Small number of pauses

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Activity 1

• Photo Language activity
• Choose ONE picture that represents one of the
  following
• How you feel right now.
• A dream
• Your image of life.
• A special person in your life
• A memorable situation.
• A turning point in your life.

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• Imagination!
• Go beyond the literal meaning

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Fluency development activity

• Repetition?

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• Whats the point behind Repetition??

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Policy of Error Correction

• When?
• How often?
• How much?

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Computer-Mediated Communication CMC?
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CMC

• Audio Video conferencing
• Voice chatting
• Discussion forums
• Voicemail
• Podcasting

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CMC Why?

• improves learners proficiency naturally through
  their own fashionable world.
• efficiently use the target language in different
  contexts. (learning as a 24-hour process)
• A solution for learners inequality to speak up
  that can result from having different
  personalities, response pace, motivation, and
  language proficiency.

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CMC Why?

• less stressful and more face-saving than
  face-to-face communication. Learners are more
  willing to share their opinions and feelings
  because they are not stared at by the rest of the
  class.
• Users worldwide can achieve communication without
  boundaries of time and space.

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CMC Why?

• Finding the new concept of keypals and the use
  of absolutely authentic materials.
• Even nonverbal communication can be trained
  through the newly developed code of cues
• ) Im happy
• ( Im angry (facial expressions)
• using similes !!