What does learning to speak involve?

Introduction to Listening and Speaking

What does learning to speak involve?

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Hello, Ali ! Nice to meet you.

• to introduce

• to inform

• to compliment

• to greet

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The teacher listens to the students speaking without correcting them.

• Fluency

• Accuracy

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The teacher corrects mistakes as soon as they accur.

• Fluency

• Accuracy

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That student pauses and hesitates too much. He needs to sound more confident.

• fluency

• interaction

• accuracy

• appropriacy

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What does it mean to lead with authenticity?

• Build inauthentic relationships with others

• Be sarcastic with you group

• Let someone lead

• Build authentic relationships with others

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Which of the following are fluency activities?

• Ranking

  Students have to rank items in order of usefulness on a desert island, e.g. water, food, a boat, clothes, rope, a tent, a compass, etc.

  Students first list their own order then they can try to persuade their partner.

  With arguments rehearsed they can then work as a four, and so on.

• 'Find someone who…'

  Each person finds someone who… plays the guitar / rides a bike / has been to Italy,

• Story-telling

  This should be intrinsically interesting for students. Stories could range from anecdotes (short, personal accounts of an incident from real life) to long and meandering sagas using pictures or words as prompts.

Multiple Choice

Is the following an accuracy activity or a fluency activity?

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Each student writes four facts about themselves or their families/friends (guide this with your own examples). In pairs or small groups learners take turns to say one of their facts. The other students must ask as many questions as they can to keep the conversation going. Give help on the type of questions, if necessary.

• Accuracy

• Fluency

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Which of the following is/are NOT typical of an accuracy-focused activity?

• Teachers draw students' attention to details of how we construct a grammatical form

• Teachers model, repeat, and give feedback.

• Teachers help students to notice the gap between the correct and incorrect language.

• There is no correction or interruption.

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Is the following fluency-focused or accuracy-focused?

"Students spend 5–10 minutes preparing a 3-minute spoken description of their dream house.

They may make notes but should not be reading from a script.

Place students in pairs and have them exchange descriptions.

Shuffle the partners, and ask students to deliver the same description, but in 2.5 minutes.

Shuffle again, and give them 2 minutes. "

• Accuracy-focused

• Fluency-focused

Multiple Choice

+     Do not require meaningful communication

• Accuracy activity

• Fluency activity

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What does it mean by linguistic forms?

• Speakers use different words and structures.

• In speech situations – thinking, listening and speaking happen simultaneously.

• Speech is sensitive to context in which it occurs.

• Speaking involves learning the language suitable for talking about different things.

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Which of the following is the EXAMPLE of transactional function?

• Ask questions for various purposes – to gather information; to clarify; to compare

• Express feelings and give opinions – relate to personal beliefs, experiences.

• Make and receive telephone calls – polite speech forms.

• Perform a variety of functions in a social context – exchange greetings, make introductions, take leave, apologize, congratulate

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Which of the following is the BEST example in interactional function?

• Express feelings and give opinions – relate to personal beliefs, experiences.

• Convey a message – in reported speech accurately.

• Ask questions for various purposes – to gather information; to clarify; to compare

• Give relevant information in response to enquiries made – to identify; to describe

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Every night, Abie mother's always tell her a story before she went to bed. This function is call as ........

• Information function

• Responding function

• Transactional function

• Interactional function

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Brown suggested 2 functions of language. Which of the following is the correct function?

• Transactional function

• Responding function

• Interaction function

• Information function

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What does learning to speak involve EXCEPT

• Function

• Linguistic forms

• Automaticity of response

• Lack of respond