【英语教学法课件】Unit 10 Teaching speaking.ppt

Unit 10 Unit 10 Teaching Teaching Speaking Speaking Do you think speaking is very important in language learning? Warming-up Warming-up Questions Questions (Wang: 156) Do you think speaking has been paid much attention to for most middle school English teachers? Some main speaking activities in class ? Repeating after the teacher ? Reading aloud ? Learning a piece of text or dialogue by heart ? Doing drills What do you think of them? (Wang: 158) Main topics for this unit ? Differences between spoken language and written language ? Principles for teaching speaking ? Designing essful speaking tasks ? Types of speaking tasks ? Organizing speaking tasks I. Differences between spoken language and written language ? in fairly simple sentence structures ? in plete sentences ? in informal, simple mon vocabulary ? with broken grammar, false starts, hesitation, fillers, etc. ? with a high proportion of repetition or redundancy ? largely anization ? a low density of information ? context dependent (Background knowledge is necessary to understand exactly what is being expressed.) Gu : 210 I. Differences between spoken language and written language Wang: 156-158 II. Principles for teaching speaking II. Principles for teaching speaking Read the part of the textbook from Page 159 to Page 160. III. Designing speaking tasks III. Designing speaking tasks Question What are the problems in getting learners to talk in the classroom? What problems do we have in our oral English classes? 1. Reluctance : The learners are reluctant to speak in the classroom. What are the factors that may cause reluctance for the learners to speak? ? Cultural factors Learners ’ prior learning experiences and the expectations created by these experiences (. learners educated in large classes, learners taught in schools where speaking was simply not encouraged, etc. )