Статья "Важность и сложность аспекта говорения в изучении английского языка"

As we know the speaking aspect of learning English is one of the most difficult for students. That’s why we, teachers, should pay more attention to this part of our lesson.

During my lessons I always try to motivate students asking them about their interests and experience and, also, show them different examples from the real life. Unfortunately, there is much information which we have to study, but there isn’t enough time to do everything we want. That is the reason why my lesson is usually devoted to accuracy rather than fluency. Though textbooks are full of speaking tasks we need to study lexical and grammatical structures more often because lots of students have plenty of gaps in their knowledge that they could get at school.  I work at technical college in Moscow and English level of my student is really poor.

Honestly saying, I haven’t found the appropriate balance between fluency and accuracy for my students yet. But I’m trying to do it every lesson and I think that now I know how to manage it. After studying the first lesson of the TDI course I found some interesting techniques and examples how to teach. If I correct errors in the end of the speech, it will be more progressive and everyone will be involved. Also, repair strategies and everyday classroom expressions are really helpful because students always want to ask loads of questions.

Well, I suppose that a balance between focus on language and focus on meaning can be achieved with some techniques at the lesson. Firstly, we should motivate students to study language using bright and up-to-date sheets, videos, pictures and others. Students can absorb new expressions and rules in the interesting context unconsciously. Secondly, we should teach the group of students according to their age, level, interests and social position and so on. Also, a role of the teacher and arrangement of students’ seats can help to improve the results.

All in all, using special techniques and strategies are always helpful for teacher and student. Both of them know what to do and what purposes they have to follow.