Speaking Pedagogy Workshop

Group Negotiation

What are the most important aspects of speaking instruction? Rank them from highest to lowest priority.

Discuss the following terms as they relate to the contexts in which you teach:

CommunicativeNeeds-basedTask-basedAuthentic

Discuss the following terms as they relate to the contexts in which you teach:

Fluency vs. AccuracyStrategies-based InstructionInteractional vs. TransactionalStudent-centered Teaching

What is the teacher’s role in teaching “speaking?”

Which of these speaking activities are “communicative”?

Listen-and-repeatInformation GapsSummary responseOral presentation/speechSkit/role play

Which of these speaking activities are “communicative”?

InterviewsGrammar drillsDebateDescribing imagesGiving directionsProblem-solving/Group

negotiation“Find someone who…”

Group Discussion

In groups of 4, share a speaking lesson or activity you have used before that worked well.

What were the communicative elements of that lesson or activity?

Micro vs. Macro Skills

Micro: pronunciation, reductions, stress patterns, intonation, grammar, phrasing

Macro: Body language, facial expression, connect ideas, register, situational communication, check for understanding

Error Correction

Local vs. Global ErrorsAffective FilterCommunicative

needs

Role of Pronunciation

Communicative

Stress patterns over individual soundsTop-down and bottom-up

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Strategies-based teaching

Students monitor their own production

Tell students the purpose beforehand to target metacognitive strategies

Mini-lesson on strategy before a lesson

Strategies: Cognitive and

Metacognitive

Which are which?

RepetitionMind mapsAssociationUnderlining key

words

Asking questionsPredictingMonitoringPlan/OrganizeEvaluate

Practice!Identify a task your students need. Designate a strategy to apply to the

task. Create a mini-lesson for the strategy. Design a communicative activity which

embeds a grammar point within the task.

Set clear objectives based on the students’ needs, communicative competence, and strategic learning.