Teaching speaking to older learners

What does we mean by Speaking?

Speaking is "the process of building and sharing meaning through the use of verbal and non-verbal symbols, in a variety of contexts" (Chaney, 1998, p. 13).

Designing speaking tasks

•One important consideration: Proficiency level of the students (challenging but not too difficult.)

Teaching Speaking is to make learners able to talk about

their:1.Opinions2.Ideas, thoughts and plans3.Needs, wishes, and desires4.Experiences5.Emotions, fears and problems

Activities that Promote Speaking

Discussions After a content-based lesson

- arrive at a conclusion-share ideas about an event-find solutions in their discussion groups.

Role PlayThe teacher gives information to the learners such as who they are and what they think or feel.

students pretends that they are in various social contexts and have a variety of social roles.

Information Gap

• Students are supposed to be working in pairs

• One student will have the information that other partner does not have and the partners will share their information.

Brainstorming• On a given topic, students can

produce ideas in a limited time.

• The good characteristics of brainstorming is that the students are not criticized for their ideas so students will be open to sharing new ideas.

Storytelling • Students can briefly summarize a

tale or story they heard from somebody beforehand.

• They may create/imagine their own stories to tell their classmates.

Speeches• Teachers can ask their students to prepare a speech about one of the topics that were discussed in class

• they may also ask them to prepare a speech about a special event or occasion. In fact, lots of students enjoy such activities as they allow them a great deal of freedom to express their ideas and show their talents

conclusion It is essential that language teachers pay

great attention to teaching speaking providing a rich environment where meaningful communication takes place is desired. With this aim, various speaking activities such as those listed above make students more active in the learning process and at the same time make their learning more meaningful and fun for them.

Thank you :D