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When two or more people communicate they may be doing so for one of these reasons: for a communicative purpose, interested by what is said in a conversation, wanting to listen to something being said and wanting to say something. Introducing communicative activities such as writing and speaking, the tutor has to consider these factors and they must create a need of interest in the students inorder for the activities to be successful. Accuracy activities looks at producing the correct language. These activities are controlled inorder to ensure accurate reproduction of the language. Fluency activities looks at being creative with the language. This looks at the effective flow of communicating. Examples of accuracy based activities are drilling and prompting of question and answer. Examples of fluency activities include role-play, information gap, discussion, debates. Tutors must encourage students to speak and participate in the class. Reasons that may hinder a student from speaking is: their lack of confidence,, they fear making mistakes, intimidation by their peers, previous experience, cultural reasons. There are ways to encourage the student speaking such as pair-work, group-work, change of the classroom setting guided practice activities. Students writing will have to be improved to write legible and be encouraged by the teacher. Other factors to improve writing skills are spelling, layout and punctuation and creative writing.
