Teach English in Xinbao XiAng - Wuwei Shi

This unit focuses on the teaching of productive skills-speaking and writing. Most students prefer to focus on their speaking skills but doesn?t mean that writing should be ignored. In many ways writing is the more difficult skill requiring a greater degree of accuracy. When two or more people are communicating with each other, we can be sure that they are doing so for one of the following reasons. ? they have some communicative purpose ? they want to listen to something ? they are interested in what is being said The difference between accuracy and fluency activities- accuracy activities are concentrated are concentrated on producing correct language. Such activities are usually controlled to ensure accurate production of language. Fluency activities are concentrated on allowing the students to experiment and be creative with languages. We are less concern with accuracy but more concerned with the effectiveness and flow of the community. Accuracy and fluency are equally important. They come into different stages of a lesson. Accuracy will check that the students can understand and use the language in a controlled way before being expected to try to use it creatively in a fluency activity. Speaking activities in the classroom. ? Controlled activities- accuracy bases activities. language is controlled by the teacher-Drilling prompting. ? Guided activities ? accuracy based but a little more creative and productive ?model dialogue and guided role play. ? Creative communication-fluency based activities. The scenario is created by the teacher but the content of the language 221..2112isn?t. There are certain reasons that make many students feel reluctant to speak in class. This reason includes-: ? Lack of confidence ? Fear of making mistakes ? Peer intimidation ? Lack of interest in the topic ? Previous learning experience ? Cultural reasons A teacher must try to overcome these problems and overcome these problems and encourage students to interact. Some techniques to encourage interactions are:- ? Pair-work ? Group work ? Plenty of controlled and guided practices before fluency activities ? make speaking activities purposeful ? change the classroom dynamics ? careful planning A typical free or creative speaking activity lesson includes ? engage ? study ? activate Guideline for a free or creative activity ? Before the lesson ? decide on your aim ? try to predict what the students will bring to the activity and any problem that may occur ? work out how long the activity will take and tailor it to the time available ? prepare any necessary materials ? work out your instruction ? During the activity ? Arouse the students interest ? You may wants to remind students of any structures vocabulary that might be useful. ? Set up the activity so that the students know the aim of the activity and what they are to do. ? Make sure the students have enough time to prepare ? Make the activity even more process rather than product based ? Monitor the activity ? Evaluate the activity and the student?s performance to provide feedback later. ? After the activity-provide feedback. ? indicate how well the class participate ? Sometime you might want to record the activity on audio or video and play it back for discussion. ? Note down glaring recurrent errors in grammar, pronunciation and use of vocabulary. Writing skills They include; ? Handwriting ? Spelling ? Layout and punctuation ? Creative writing A typical creative writing activity lesson is as follows ? Engage ? Study ? Activate Going through this unit, I have learn the different ways of teaching speaking and writing English language the problems encountered by students and how to solve them.