Art in Correction

Art in Correction

Understanding speaking skills and providing feedback for it.

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What are the four language skills? (own words,no wrongs here)

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What is Speaking? (2 sentences max)

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check the things we do when we speak.

• pronounce words

• take part in discussion.

• greet people

• smile

• tell stories

THE FOUR SPEAKING SKILLS

• Vocabulary: To develop our speaking skills, we first need to know the right words. Vocabulary development begins when we are infants, as we learn to describe the world around us and communicate our needs.

• Grammar: Grammar helps us to convey information in a way that the listener will recognize and understand.

• Pronunciation: Understanding how to correctly pronounce words is another important element of speaking skills. 

• Fluency: Fluency in spoken language is something that naturally develops as students go through school, as they are using and practicing speaking skills every day. 

When talking about oral skills, it can be said that there are two different ways in which these skills can be divided.

• The first division is the motor-perceptive skills, which involve perceiving, recalling, and articulating the correct order of sounds and structures of the target language. 

• The second division is the interaction skills, which involve making decisions about communication and the ability to use language in order to satisfy particular demands, not structure

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Why are speaking skills important to learn?

As an ESL or EFL student, speaking skills are considered the most important part of learning a language. In fact, many language learners measure their performance by how well they can speak it. As most effective foreign language learning takes place through interaction, it's a skill that can be honed to really build an understanding of the language and culture of English-speaking countries.

Principles For Teaching Speaking

• Creating Realistic situations will help the students if they practice and use English in a realistic situation. The teacher should think of a situation where the type of language he wants to introduce is commonly used.

• Engaging All StudentsWhen teaching speaking, the teacher should see the classroom as a community. The students should communicate with each other, and not only with the teacher. The teacher should think of ways to engage all the students and make them speak with a reason to do so.

• Personalizing Speaking topics will be easier for students to speak in a foreign language about topics they are interested in: Personal topics and topics close to their lives. 

Principles For Teaching Speaking

• Creating an Unfearful class lot of students are afraid of speaking in class, they are too shy, or they don’t want to make mistakes. It is the role of the teacher to create a friendly class where students feel happy and relaxed. It encourages them to speak without fear or hesitation.

• Planning Different and Various Types of Speaking activities is a good idea to plan two types of activities: one where students practice vocabulary and grammar in a more controlled way, and another type where students can speak freely.

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There are three main reasons to encourage EFL students to speak in the classroom.

• First, students are provided with rehearsal opportunities. 

• Second, oral practice offers feedback to teachers and learners. In other words, while interacting, instant corrections can be made in the conversation. 

• Third, speaking practice helps learners become automatic users of various elements of language such expressions, codes, grammar structures, and phonics among others

Feedback

• Brookhart (2008) also suggested practicing and assigning feedback to students in groups in order to save time and involve all the students. In this way, the teacher can ensure if the students have mastered the problematic structure or still need further practice. 

• Peer correction has also been introduced as a response to the problematic situation of learners’ participation in classroom oral activities.  

• It would be ideal if the findings of all the empirical studies on the effectiveness of peer correction were consistent; however, they have produced varying results, which have made educators and teachers skeptical about peer correction in the evaluation of second language ability (Matsuno, 2009; Patri, 2002; Ross, 2006). 

The success and efficiency

• each type of error correction (EC) depend on different factors such as the domain of correction, the learners’ individual characteristics, their level of proficiency, and their attitudes towards the correction

• The students’ point of view is important because over-correction of the errors can discourage them to participate in the class activities and hinder the interaction (Cohen, 1975).

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Correct your Student's Mistakes Without Destroying Their Confidence

•  Praise them, and be genuine about it.

• Make sure your corrections are educational

• Give understandable feedback

• Give them a model

• It’s all about the process, NOT natural ability

• Think about timing

• Ask your students to reflect on their own work first

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write one way you correct your students?

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Which do you agree with?

• My studente get really embarrassed talking and making mistakes in front of their clasmates, so I don't often ask them to speak in class.

• I like asking my class to tell one another stories - they get so intesrested they don't worry about the mistakes they make

• I can't do speaking activities i my class - the students make so much noise that the teachers in other classes complain

Why is speaking important in the classroom?