Teaching procedures
4. Teaching procedures
Speaking is a skill. No one can do it simply by memorizing the rules. In other words, one can only improve his speaking ability by speaking more. Here come some tentative procedures, which are proved to be constructive and conductive in oral classes.
4.1 Pronunciation and intonation
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What pronunciation and intonation part emphasized is imitation. The target of imitation is the language which is spoken by native speakers. In the process of imitation, students should imitate from easy words and commonly used words with one syllable, to the difficult and more complicated ones. This process should be accomplished word by word without any hasty. The quantity of imitation would be controlled around five to ten each time, stressing the number of repeat, and paying attention to the quality of imitation. It must produce results, so that students can see their improvement, then enhance their[URL=http://www.dofus-kamas.cc]dofus kamas[/URL] self-confidence, improve the efficiency of learning English. Besides, original English-speaking tapes can also help teachers guide students to imitate tone of simple English sentences to inspire students’ interest in learning English intonation. Although imitation is dull, yet it has a good result of rectifying students’ pronunciation and regulating their speech tone and intonation. Imitation is an indispensable training in oral English learning.
4.2 Vocabularies and phrases
Vocabularies and phrases are the cornerstone of language. Without vocabularies and phrases, people would not be able to express and exchange their views. Oral English and written English are different in the expression of meaning. Written English tolerate a prolonged thinking of author before he writes down something, while oral[URL=http://www.fcsgame.com/]world of warcraft gold[/URL] English does not. Any tasks for practicing speaking should reflect the special characteristics of spoken language. One of the characteristics of speech in everyday life is that speech is spontaneous. That is, in most situations, do not plan ahead of time what they are going to say. Therefore, oral English practice demands the speakers to memorize about 1500 commonly used words and phrases.
