Загрузил Firdavs Raxmonov

DEVELOPING SPEAKING SKILL THROUGH COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH

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Ministry of higher education, science and innovations karshi state university
REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN
MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND INNOVATIONS
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COURSE WORK
THEME: DEVELOPING SPEAKING SKILL THROUGH
COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH
CONTENTS
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Student: Salomjonova Marjona
DEVELOPING SPEAKING SKILL THROUGH
COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH
TABLE CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ 3
CHAPTER I: COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH ............................................ 6
1.1 SPEAKING AS THE KEY TO COMMUNICATION ................................. 6
1.2 SPEAKING AND COMMUNICATION: INTERRELATED ..................... 8
CHAPTER II. NEED TO DESIGN ACTIVITIES ........................................... 11
2.1 Communicative competence ........................................................................ 11
2.2 Group discussion method ............................................................................. 17
2.3 Role-play ....................................................................................................... 19
CONCLUSION................................................................................................... 21
REFERENCES ................................................................................................... 23
INTRODUCTION
Learning a language is an amazing fact and language acquisition is one of the
most impressive and fascinating aspects of human development. Second language
acquisition theories emphasize the role of the environment, especially opportunities
to interact with speakers who adapt their language and interaction patterns to meet
learners’ needs. The ever-growing need for good communication skill and speaking
skill in English has created a great demand in the methods of teaching English.
People generally want to improve their spoken English as it is ‘Lingua Franca’ of
the world. Spoken English is a prerequisite for a successful career in many fields of
employment. This paper is an outcome of a course under UGC – CAREER
ORIENTED
PROGRAMME
titled
as
CERTIFICATE
COURSE
IN
COMMUNICATION SKILL AND SPOKEN ENGLISH, conducted at the writer’s
college for the final year students who are from rural villages and who had their
regional language (Tamil) as the medium of instruction at schools. They are all in
need of a good job and employers, too, insist that their employees have good
communication and fluency in English. Many students display a lack of confidence
in speaking English and this had motivated the teachers of English to explore the
possibility of introducing a course which would help them gain more confidence in
communicating in English and also provide them with more job opportunities. There
are many methods and opportunities to teach English, such as, travel, study abroad,
media and internet. This paper shows how among all the methods, Communicative
Language Teaching, CLT, facilitates and fulfills the learning process to improve the
spoken skill when done with various activities, even though the teachers face many
challenges, while teaching the course.
(Key words: language learning, spoken skill, communication, activities,
improvement, goals, challenges and achievements.)
The current status of English is unprecedented. It is a potential global lingua
franca, as it has a preeminent global role in science, commerce, politics, finance,
tourism, sport and also in various kinds of entertainments. With no challenger
comparable to it, so far, English remains untouchable. So, English, which is
undeniably the world’s dominant language, has become the practical language of
wider communication. Any learners in any part of the world want to speak and
communicate only in English. Generally, the language learners find themselves with
multiple demands, as they learn to communicate and meet the need for learning that
language.
Their
demands
are
always
focused
on
accuracy,
fluency,
appropriacy, and flexibility. The four skills of language – listening, speaking,
reading and writing – are interdependent to each other and it is felt that there is an
inadequacy of a four-skill model of language. But within the last quarter century,
communicative language teaching has been put around the world as the ‘new’ or
‘innovative’ approach to teach English as a second language. Broadly speaking, the
best approach to teach people to use a language is to move from communication to
language and then from language to communication. Communication is an
important part of the goal of language teaching. People learn English for some
reason, in some way; they want to communicate in English. A vital part of learning
a language involves the act of communication itself. There is a general acceptance
of the complexity and interrelatedness of the skills in both oral and written
communication and of the need for the learners to have the experience of
communication, to participate in the real- life situations by speaking and
communicating in English.
Speaking a language is really difficult for foreign language learners because
effective oral communication requires the ability to use the target language
appropriately in social interactions. Of course, non-linguistic elements such as
gestures and body language, postures, facial expressions, and so on also convey
messages, with or without speech. One of the big challenges that language teachers
face is promoting oral language. An English teacher should know what counts as
speaking in language learning and how to promote such skills. This paper explores
the interrelatedness of speaking skill and communication by including both speaking
and communicative activities which bring out the challenges and benefits of their
use. Here it becomes necessary to examine the aspects and factors which provide
effective guidance in developing proficiency in speaking and competence in
communication.
CHAPTER I: COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH
1.1 SPEAKING AS THE KEY TO COMMUNICATION
Speaking is not the oral production of written language, but rather, it involves
learners in the mastery of a wide range of sub skills, which constitute an overall
competence in the spoken language. As English has become the global language of
communication, many learners want to speak and interact in a multiplicity of
situations through the language. People form judgments about our language
competence only by our speaking skill rather than any other language skills.
Speaking is desire-and purpose driven when genuinely communicated. We want to
communicate something to achieve a particular end, which may involve expressing
ideas and opinions wish or desire to do something, negotiating or solving a particular
problem, establishing or maintaining social relationships and friendships.
Speaking is very rarely carried out in isolation and naturally it becomes an
interactive skill. Widdowson (1978: 58) comments; ‘what is said is dependent on an
understanding of what else has been said in the interaction’. If one cannot understand
what is said, one is certainly unable to respond. Language is a form of social action
because when communication takes place in the context of structured exchange,
meaning is thus socially regulated. To speak a language, one must know how the
language is used in a social context. In fact, oral communication involves a very
powerful nonverbal communication system.
Spoken communications are essentially ‘transactional’ or ‘interactional’.
‘Transactional’ in the sense, the language used by the participants is primarily
message based and it contains factual information. Examples of transactional
language may be: a policeman giving directions to a driver or giving instructions to
someone to fill a money order form. The intention here is that the message has to be
clearly communicated. Spoken language is also used to establish and maintain social
relationships and this is termed ‘interactional’ communication. In fact much of our
daily communication remains interactional only. Being able to interact in a language
is essential. Therefore it becomes the responsibility of the language teachers to
provide learners with opportunities for meaningful communicative behavior about
relevant topics by using learner- learner interaction as the key to teach language for
communication because ‘communication derives essentially from interaction’. The
aim of language (L2) teaching in any part of the world is to develop understanding
of language and culture through a foreign language and to develop a positive attitude
towards communication in L2 by providing basic practical communication ability in
hearing and speaking.
COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH
There are various reasons why this new, innovative approach has become very
popular among the learners. To enumerate a few:
Communicative is relevant to all four language skills.
The concept of Communication can refer both to the properties of language and
to social behavior.
The concept is a dynamic and intensely practical skill, providing the learners
opportunities for thorough and meaningful rehearsal of the English they will need
for effective communication.
It enables the learners to use the target language to communicate in real life.
It places emphasis on developing skills, particularly, speaking skill, within a
wide range of communicative settings.
This ‘Communicative revolution’ was mistaken as valid only for teaching the
spoken skill, when learners needed to make conversations in English. Of course, the
notion is partially acceptable one, since face-to-face interaction is the most obvious
kind of communication with other people and learners are made to feel the need of
oral skills, when given the greater opportunities for travel and for communication
with English speakers.
1.2 SPEAKING AND COMMUNICATION: INTERRELATED
In their analysis of the theoretical base of communicative language teaching,
Richards and Rodgers (2001:161) offer the following four characteristics of a
communicative view of language:
Language is a system for the expression of meaning.
The primary function of language is for interaction and communication.
The structure of language reflects its functional and communicative uses.
The primary units of language are not merely its grammatical and structural
features, but categories of functional and communicative meaning as exemplified in
discourse.
The interactive behavior of ESL learners is influenced by a number of factors.
To speak a language one must know how the language is used in a social context.
The affective factors related to L2 learning are emotions, self-esteem, empathy,
anxiety, attitude, and motivation. Speaking a foreign language in public is often
anxiety provoking. Sometimes, extreme anxiety occurs when ESL learners become
tongue-tied or lost for words in an unexpected situation which often leads to
discouragement and a sense of failure. The interference of L1 is very commonly seen
among ESL learners. Keeping all these issues as key factors, the research was
undertaken in the writer’s college, where 99% of the learners possess L1 (Tamil) as
their medium of instruction at schools. Really it is a challenge for us, English
teachers to teach these learners English and to make them understand what we teach.
Of course this is a great job laid before us, but we are able to succeed in our endeavor
by making our students learn English and speak English and get placed in reputed
BPO companies also.
The paper reports on the impact of CLT in improving speaking skill among
college students who have hailed from rural atmosphere with L1 as the medium of
instruction at schools.
METHODOLOGY
AIM OF THE COURSE
In our college, our English department is conducting a Certificate course under
UGC- Career Oriented Program titled ‘Spoken English and Communication’ for the
past Five years and this is the last year. The course was started with the intention of
making the students eligible for employability, particularly those who want
employment immediately after their degree course. The aim of this course is to
produce qualified Government college students for IT jobs which they would not
have dreamt of when they entered the college on the first day.
PARTICIPANTS
The intake of the course is limited to 40 students per year. The students are
from various major subjects, excluding English major. Only the final year students
are taken into the course. We can notice a thirst for knowing the language and a
yearning to speak in English is very much seen among the students. In order to
quench their thirst for this language acquisition, we adopt certain methods and
frameworks. Here we understand our roles very well and we provide learners with
many opportunities to take up learner-learner interaction. Our methods are usually
learner-centered. Communication in the classroom is embedded in many activities.
Since these learners learn the target language in their own culture, practice can be
given only in the classrooms. So, a key factor in L2 development is the opportunity
given to them to speak in the language promoting interactions. The teachers motivate
them and create willingness and make them realize the need to speak in the target
language.
FRAMEWORK OF SYLLABUS
Generally a traditional L2 English syllabus focuses on the vocabulary the
students need to learn and the grammatical items they should master, grading from
their beginning level to advanced level. But our course syllabus is framed with
various proposals by us. It is a skill based syllabus that focuses on the four language
skills and breaks each skill into its component micro skills. The syllabus was framed
by us with the motive that whoever undertakes this course should start loving
English besides feeling at ease and comfort, both with the teachers and the subject.
The duration of the course is 180 contact hrs, which are conducted after the college
hours. In this 180 hrs the students are prepared for theory exam and practical exam.
Apart from this, they are given a mini project which they do on their own. It is always
believed that learners learn a language through the process of communicating in it,
and that communication is meaningful to the learner provides a better opportunity
for learning than through a grammar based approach. So the principles of teaching
this communicative course methodology can be summarized as follows:
v Create real life situations in the class.
v Make to realize the need to communicate.
v Make real communication the focus of language learning.
v Provide chances for learners to try out what they know.
v Be tolerant of the learners’ errors as they build up their communicative
competence.
v Combine all the four language skills together, since all are interwoven.
Keeping these key factors and the capacity of the learners who are from
underprivileged society, we have framed our course work.
Communicative method is a way for both teacher and students to get the most
out of the classroom experiences. Our motto is, ‘utilize your own creativity’, to
create activities and exercises that would engage all students with hands-on practice.
It is good to incorporate quizzes and tests based on real life situations and practical
combinations of fill in the blanks, multiple choice, and true or false.
CHAPTER II. NEED TO DESIGN ACTIVITIES
2.1 Communicative competence
As a language teacher it is important to know what counts as speaking in
learning and how to promote such skills. This part of the teaching tries to explore
communicative activities, including challenges and benefits of their use, and the
criteria for determining to what degree an activity is communicative.
Communicative activities are always needed to encourage the learners to speak with
and to listen to other learners, as well as with the people in society. Such activities
have real purposes: to find information, break down barriers, talk about self, and
learn about the culture. Even when a lesson is focused on developing reading and
writing skills, by integrating communicative activities, these skills can be best
brought out among the students. This research on communication and spoken skill
shows that more learning takes places when students are engaged in relevant tasks
within a dynamic learning (learner-centred) environment rather than in traditional
teacher led (teacher-centred) environment of learning. Hands-on practice always
makes the students to display comprehension by participating. And it also gives them
the opportunity to work out the links naturally and this method facilitate a safe
learning environment where students are comfortable, aspire to speak and want to
participate in activities that strengthen their abilities.
The following guidelines for the teachers are adopted in the course to
implement CLT approach in the classroom and to help the students acquire
communicative competence.
Goal: Communicative competence
Method: Learner-centered teaching
Guidelines for the teachers:
Provide appropriate input
Use language in authentic ways
Design activities with a purpose
Use activity based instructions
Encourage collaboration and interaction
Provide ample opportunities for learners to use the target language
Make error corrections according to the situations.
Resources: Worksheets and Exercises
ACTIVITIES:
Tests and drills
To begin with, the students are given a small amount of drilling and testing. It
is felt good to incorporate quizzes and tests in a very creative communicative way.
Tests are based on real-life situations and practical combinations of fill in the blanks,
multiple choice, true or false, questionnaire and small talks. At the initial stage, all
ESL learners are made to feel themselves free of tension and stress by providing the
following situations:
1.At a friend’s wedding party you are unexpectedly asked to give a small
speech.
Do you:
Feel uneasy?
Feel amused?
Act coolly?
Blush?
Stammer?
Feel pleased and flattered?
Such small activities are given to ease the learning situations. Then small tasks
are given to develop speaking skill in short interactional exchanges where they could
make one or two sentences at a time.
2. Small talk between students:
S1: I hate this hot, sunny weather.
S2: Me too.
S1: Do you like to go on a tour in summer?
S2: Sometimes I do like.
As learners get more experience, they are able to utter some of the simple
exchanges and they come to know how to open a conversation. At this stage, they
are given the following activity in the form of questionnaires and quizzes:
3. The students are seated and they are given the following questionnaire and
asked to do
both in pairs and in groups. This activity is language focused:
S1 asks S2 the following questions:
What would you do if…..
a. you met your old friend at a wedding?
b. you found a purse with passport and visa on a train?
c. somebody hit your car in parking area?
d. you got a ticket for a reality show?
4. Here is a simple game to promote interaction among students:
A list of actions are written on a paper (for example, typing on the computer,
lighting the gas stove, putting the clothes in the washing machine, and so on).
Now one student is called upon to the front and is shown one action on the list.
The student has to mime the action and the others raise their hands as they want
to speak.
The teacher nominates someone to guess the answer, for example: you are
lighting a lamp.
The student miming responds: No, I’m not/ Yes, I am.
The other students go on asking various questions till they arrive at the correct
activity of the student who mimed. This is passed on to others also, where the
students are able to come out with their answers in full sentences.
5.A-B texts:
Two texts that relate to the same topic are chosen for the activity. S1 reads one
text, S2 the other, and they orally summarize their text, exchange their information,
find similarities, differences etc.
6.Vocabulary Builder:
A set of cards that show similar places are taken and each pair/ group is given
a card. They brainstorm as many words relating to the subject as possible. Then all
words are pooled together and others are added as necessary. Then we worked on
collocations and expressions. (eg: a sandy beach, to lie in the sun, to go swimming
etc.) In 5th and 6th activities, the students felt that they are more benefitted and these
activities seemed to be more meaningful and purposeful to them. They felt happy
over the thought of improving their vocabulary.
7.This is an individual work. Look at the pictures and talk on the topics.
The students, as individuals, are allowed freely to discuss over the pictures.
After two minutes, they are asked to narrate an incident based on the pictures. After
the first round of narration, the students are asked to take another picture and to
narrate incidents. This real-life activity interested the students and they are able to
recall from their memories various incidents. Here the students are seen with
overwhelming enthusiasm, since they are narrating their unforgettable memories.
This activity helps the students to improve their art of narration.
8.Mini talk
Here in this activity, the students are given various topics like your favorite
book, teacher, actor, present education system, child labour, female infanticide, in
my spare time, a film I’d recommend, etc. The students are given maximum of 5
minutes’ preparation time after choosing one of the said topics.
This activity helped the students to share their ideas and thoughts in nutshell,
omitting the unnecessary points. This enabled the students to be clear in their thought
and talk. But this activity also posed some problems with the students. The students
who are slow at speaking could not speak out in a successful manner, as they
stammered to get sequence of ideas. Yet, repeated practice made them to speak out
their minds with much confidence. This activity when given a week’s preparation
time- perhaps they are able to make up for a long presentation.
These small activities showed better result of the students. We are training them
theoretically also by providing them basic grammar exercises in parts of speech,
tenses, degrees of comparison, connectives, conditional clause, error detection and
correction. Apart from speaking skill, the students are given exercises in listening,
reading and writing also. As these students come from L 2 background, they
struggled hard to follow the teacher in the beginning, but later on, they picked up the
speed of learning mainly by the use of such activities.
The exam pattern of this course comprises practical, where the students are
compulsorily made to speak and interact. The students’ potentiality is tested in
conversation, group discussion, extempore, role-play, interview skill, etc. The
primary function of interactional use of language is to promote social
communication. The emphasis is on creating harmonious interactions between
participants rather than on communicating just information. The goal of the students
is to make social interaction comfortable and non-threatening to the students.
Learning is enhanced when learners are involves in the decision making process
and the content of the course is directly related to their immediate needs. For these
reasons, we found that it is prudent to not only diagnose the learners’ linguistic
problems, but also the communicative contexts in which they use English outside
the classroom. Our students, who have no L2 (English) background, are necessitated
to learn English specifically for the purposes of speaking and communicating.
Almost all students want to improve their status in their lives and as college students;
they realize the need for English, to settle down in their lives with good jobs. This
motivated us for the introduction of the course focusing on the speaking skill and
communication. Very soon we were able to find out that the spoken-skill can be
developed simply by assigning students various activities discussed above and some
more activities like group discussion, role-play, speaking on general topics, etc.
Sample activities are given below:
1.Spot the difference: Information-gap activity
Speech and conversational activities are learner-centered and they demand
from the speakers the need to focus on the social pressures of face-to-face
interaction. A conversation is truly communicative event where dynamic exchanges
of information take place.
An important aspect of communication in CLT is the notion of information gap.
This refers to the fact that in real communication, people normally communicate in
order to get information they do not possess. This is known as information gap. In
this activity the students should use their linguistic and communicative resources in
order to obtain information, In doing so, they will draw available vocabulary,
grammar, and communication strategies to complete the given task.
The following exercise makes use of the information-gap principle:
The students are in pairs and each member of the pair has a different picture.
Without showing each other their pictures they have to find out what is the
differences are between them.
This activity is very amusing for the learners and all participated very
enthusiastically. Since this activity does not elicit much speech from the students,
they are able to show their full participation actively. It has made students to ask
questions and give answers, agree and disagree with the answers. Here the
conversations of the students are very little but this can be considered as a starter
task for conversation. But we were able to succeed in making our students to do
everything in collaboration with each other.
2.2 Group discussion method
Usually discussion skills are not much encouraged in ESL classrooms, as a
result of negative experiences. But guided discussions are always preferable, as they
provide a frame work within which learners are constrained to operate. Here the
students receive content just before the discussion and they are guided by the
teachers with certain language prompts and appropriate words. This guided
discussion provides security for the learners and help them improve communication.
Yet, this approach may not be carried out forever, because it controls the learners’
knowledge of oral practice and curtails their freedom of choice.
The success of the discussions depends on the willingness of all the participants
to make substantial contributions to the process. Their active contribution depends
on the knowledge of the topic under discussion. So the topic chosen must be familiar
and interesting for the students’ community. Next step is the formation of partner
groups or observer-evaluators. These formations ensure that students have
reasonably frequent opportunities not just to participate in discussions, but also to
observe, describe and evaluate the process as a whole.
This activity is substantially learner-centered. Examples:
1. Women Empowerment
2. Education in India
3. International terrorism
4. Balance between professionalism and family
5. Is globalization really necessary?
6. Go Green
Discussions take place effectively in small groups, where the students feel less
nervous about speaking and making mistakes. Informal conversation and colloquial
language use is more difficult to practice in a language classroom, because it is very
spontaneous. This can be avoided by encouraging the students to involve in everyday
exchanges in order to build a classroom community. Such exchanges can help them
to develop their communicative skill.
In group discussion activity, the students are made to speak a dialogue, by
looking at the person they are addressing, and speak their lines meaningfully. In
other words, they should speak, not read the dialogues. It is important to make sure
that all students participate in discussion. The teacher can act only as a monitor to
monitor over the language use. This could help them share their ideas and thoughts
in a comfortable atmosphere.
Sometimes general topics can be given to discuss, chat, and to debate.
For example:
Discuss, chat and talk about Happiness with the given clues:
1. Talk about what makes you happy.
2. Do you think happiness is the most important thing in life?
If you don’t, what do you think?
3. Can money buy happiness? If you were rich, would that make you happy?
4. What do you think, “always look on the bright side of life” really means?
The following activity can be done either as a debate or as a group discussion:
The students are allowed freely to discuss and debate among themselves. The
students are allowed to think about what they are going to argue with their oral
proficiency. They are divided into two groups; one prepares the case in favour of
oral testing, the other against. They are advised to prepare their case as convincingly
as they do for the sake of argument.
2.3 Role-play
The usage of role-play in ESL classrooms is implemented when the students
are asked to say the lines of a dialogue. The use of role play has got a tremendous
number of possibilities for communication practice. The students are not to the kind
of language used by learners in a classroom; they can be shopkeepers or buyers,
bankers or customers, doctors or patients; they can be bold or frightened, amused or
irritated, they can be in Royal Palace or in Mars; they can be advising, laughing,
condoling. The language can vary correspondingly according to the situations,
according to the profession, status, personality or mood of the character being role
played. All these activities take place to serve the communicative purpose or
functions required. Sample role play activities:
1.Plays:
The students are asked to choose their favourite plays they have already read
or composed, or from the actual literature of the target language. They are also
allwed freely to role play only a portion or a particular scene from a play. They could
write out their own scripts also and perform before the audience.
2.Simulations and Role play:
In simulations the individual participants speak and react as themselves, but the
group role, situation and task is an imaginary one. Sample exercise: The students
are informed that they are the committee members of a newly organized old age
home. To set up the home properly with all kinds of amenities they would need more
money, so they have to raise the fund. For raising sufficient money, ways and means
of collecting fund are elicited from the students and the teachers also provide their
suggestions.
This task can be done in small groups, with no audience.
Next is Role play:
Participants are given a situation with problem or task but with individual roles,
which are written out on cards. For example:
Role card A: The student is given the role of a customer in a cake shop. He/ she
want to buy a chocolate cake for the birthday.
Role card B: Another student is allocated the role of shop assistant in the cake
shop. The shop has got varieties of cakes, except chocolate cake.
Now the students are allowed freely to open up the conversation or dialogue
and to proceed with the same in the most interesting form.
3 .Interview Skill:
This is the main focus and object of our training the students for employments.
The students are explained the various rules in attending an interview and tips are
given to face interviews successfully. The dress code to be followed, the manner of
speaking, and general etiquettes are described to them, making them to face any
interview in a bold way. All the students are made to take up this model job interview
activity mainly to eradicate their inferiority complex to speak in English
The students are explained why they need jobs and a list of their requirements
are enumerated as follows:
With these tips and clues the students are encouraged and motivated to appear
any type of job interviews, as jobs are very essential for our students who are from
rural places and whose only aim in higher education is to get a job!
The materials we have examined so far have been largely within the general
language teaching framework and easily available materials only can cater the needs
of the rural students. This is the reason why we have hardly used hi- tech materials.
But if a student wants to speak in an academic community, more use of hi-tech
materials with academic purposes should be used by the teacher.
CONCLUSION
Feedback and comments from all the forty students are duly collected every
year and they are analyzed and organized into two categories:
1. Students’ response to the course as a language learning experience
2. Students’ response to the course as a means to improve their speaking and
communicative skill.
Generally, most of the students like the course, as it makes them learn all the
four kinds of language skills. It helps them improve their vocabulary and
pronunciation. They are able to think and write in English. Their shyness, inferiority
complex and fear for the target language are all driven away; they gain selfconfidence to face persons who speak English. They could find all activities useful
and enjoyable to do, particularly when done in pairs or groups. Thus they felt a
freedom of speech in all activities. Thus they get motivated to speak in English
whenever and wherever possible.
Some of the difficulties and challenges the teachers face are listed below:
1. Pronunciation is frequently unintelligible because of the interference of their
mother tongue
2. Constant errors are shown in conversational micro skills but no weakness is
found that causes misunderstanding.
3. Vocabulary is limited to minimum and prevent the students speak on very
public topics.
4. Speech is so halting and very slow and hesitant; sometimes sentences are left
uncompleted.
5. Understanding of simplified speech is done carefully with repetition and
rehearsing.
But these challenges are overcome by the teachers by their constant efforts in
correcting the students whenever they commit mistakes without hurting their
feelings. The repeated training of the teachers resulted in a great, remarkable changes
in students, for example they could show improvement in pronunciation which does
not affect understanding, no more than two grammatical errors during the
conversation, Vocabulary adequate to cope with any special interested topics or
varied topics of general interest, speech on all general topics are effortless and
smooth , but with nonnative speed and evenness, lastly, their understanding is
tremendously increased as they could understand everything in normal and educated
circumstances.
In developing the four skills, linguists constantly refer to the importance of
using language from relevant sources, and producing language towards relevant
ends. Skills are developed extensively and often enjoyably through communicative
activities. We have looked at various types of communicative activity; word power
games, games, group discussion, conversation building, role plays and interview
skill. All these activities generally involve gathering, exchanging, and producing
information in English. Such activities motivate
the learners, they further the
learning process itself, they give the teacher information on progress, and they
thereby provide a context for deciding which elements of language form the learners
need help with. Thus language learning is proved as a gradual process that involves
creative use of language, and trial and error. Although errors are a normal product
of learning, the ultimate goal of learning is to be able to use the new language
effectively and meaningfully. So successful language learning involves the use of
effective learning and communication strategies.
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