Group work
Group work
The most efficient and useful task in oral English lesson is group work. Nowadays, the students have the opportunities to communicate with each other, and it is possible for the teachers to talk with each group in a single 45-minute lesson. Besides, this also gives the students the greatest opportunities to speak to both their classmates and their teacher. It is also possible for all the groups to feedback to the whole class in a short time. As Li Binnong says, "This can either be a group presentation or a single student representing the group as a spokesman. Many tasks are suitable for group work, such as advertisement[URL=http://www.fcsgame.com/]world of warcraft gold[/URL] for a product. Students have to design posters and leaflets for the products and do a group presentation including introducing themselves, describing their products and companies and performing a television style commercial. "
4.6 Error correction
In oral classes, teachers are often faced with all sorts of errors made by students. Because of insufficient study of them, some correct all of the errors and some neglect them. There are some reasons why students make errors when they speak:
(1) “The students may make errors because they have not had sufficient chances to observe the regular English or to[URL=http://www.fcsgame.com/dofus-kamas.htm]Dofus Kamas[/URL] enrich sufficient knowledge of the language system.
(2) The students may make errors because they have not observed the form correctly.
(3) The students may make errors because of nervousness.
(4) The students may make errors because the activity is difficult.
(5) The students may make errors because the activity is confusing.
(6) The students may make errors because they are using patterns from the first language instead of the patterns from the second language.
(7) The students make an error because they have been copying incorrect models.”
“Nowadays a lot of linguists suggest that the most important point that teachers must learn is not to correct every mistake [URL=http://www.just4gold.com/age-of-conan-gold.html]Age of Conan Gold[/URL]which the students make. They should decide what to criticize, what to praise and what to ignore before correction.” In the speaking class, there are “three stages of teaching—mechanical, meaningful and communicative. Teachers should choose different approaches at the different stages to deal with the errors.”
At the mechanical stage, teaching the students a certain structural pattern is the teachers’ main task. The errors made at this stage are more likely due to the reason that they could not learn the rule or the form of the pattern well. All mistakes should be corrected. For example:
Teacher: He drew.
Student: He has drew.
Teacher: drawn
Student: He has drawn.
At the meaningful stage, it is the performance of slips of tongue that causes the errors. The teachers should first supply them with the right forms to get them, and then self-monitor their speech. For instance:
Teacher: What did you do last night?
Student: I do my homework last night.
Teacher: You do your homework last night?
Student: I did my homework last night.
At the communicative stage, unlike the message, errors may not be important. Except from the happening of serious errors on the teaching point or those that interfere with communication, they can be neglected. Teachers should pay more attention to the message. Peer teaching is helpful at this stage. For example:
When you want to see a movie in the-(teacher: cinema) in the cinema, you should first-(teacher: buy) first buy a ticket.
The goal of oral English teaching is to help the students to communicate well with other people. It is useless for anything to bother the work toward this goal and hinder the way to the success.
4.7 Exam
Speaking is probably the most difficult to exam. To make the exams as same as the conversation in reality is one of the difficulties. In the real life, the main purposes of spoken interaction are describing, expressing, giving instructions, narrating, explaining, requesting, apologizing, justifying and so on. How to make speaking exams closer to reality? This is not an easy problem. And separating the listening skill from the speaking skill is another difficulty. What’s more, both the students and the teachers feel ill to[URL=http://www.dofus-kamas.cc]dofus kamas[/URL] oral exams. As Li Binnong says, "However it is necessary to grade the students’ ability for various reasons, most importantly to gain access to higher education or a better job. Oral exams can take many forms. One form is similar to the speech competition, at least two judges are preferable to one if possible. Another is a conversation one on one with the teacher." Although it is a time-consuming and tiring task for the teacher, it is perhaps the most useful kind of exam. Speaking in pairs in front of the teacher is also a useful way. Thus, teachers could relax for a moment and have more time needed for the exam. The students should not to prepare or memorize anything for the exam. It is not until the coming of the exam, should we give the students maybe five minutes to read and understand the task.
5. Conclusion
Speaking is an interactive process of producing, receiving and processing information. In the real communication outside the classroom, it is often spontaneous, while speaking inside the classroom is different. But because our goal is to make it more like that in the real world, so in order to effectively enhance the ability of students to express English, first, we must understand students’ difficulties which exist in the spoken language, then we should act appropriately to the different situations in view of students’ actual situation in order to implement practical and effective methods.
To sum up, there is no quick way to learn another language, but innumerable teaching methods should be applied in the oral English of middle school students, any specific one of which, however, cannot be adopted singly or changelessly. The teachers, therefore, should flexibly change their ways of teaching according to [URL=http://www.fast-wowgold.com]FFXI Gil[/URL]
different situations. In practice, various ways need to be combined and integrated, with the advantages maximized and the disadvantages minimized, so that the most satisfying effect can be approached. It will essentially help the students with the capacity of oral expression and the competence of communication.
There are various and different ways, but there is a general way: that is to speak more and use more.
