DESIGNING SPEAKING
MATERIALS
Teachers are
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Evaluat or s and select or s of
m at er ials
¡ To becom e a pr oficient user in spont aneous
conver sat ional set t ings, a second language user needs t o acquir e an ar r ay of cult ur al and pr agm at ic sk ills and k now ledge
alongside t he building blocks of vocabular y and gr am m ar , fluency, and pr onunciat ion
¡ The dem ands of speech pr ocessing in r
Therefor e, m at er ials t o t each t he skill of speaking need t o find a balance bet w een sever al com pet ing dem ands:
1. indiv idual speaker s’ affect ive needs in pr ivat e and unpr edict able discour se
cont ext s ( for inst ance, how t o show int erest and em ot ion or handle cr it icism or
differ ences of opinions appr opr iat ely
2. I nfor m al day - t o- day encount er s
AIMS OF MATERIALS TO TEACH
SPEAKING
¡ t o r aise aw ar eness of t he feat ur e of speech
( speaking does aut om at ically split it self up int o neat sent ences, and t eaching speak ing as if it w er e a m at t er of placing one
accur at e sent ence aft er anot her as in for m al w r it ing does not help t he lear ner .)
¡ To help lear ner s under st and t hat effect ive
speaking skills ar e based on a collabor at ion bet w een language user s.
¡ The fact t hat cont ex t and user st r ongly
TWO MAIN AREAS TO FOCUS ON
pot ent ial for cult ur al differ ences
¡ They also need t o build st r ong language
ASSESSING MATERIALS FOR THE
a language feat ure/ funct ion?¡
What lev el of fluency and ease of
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Ar e any uses of discour se st rat egies
being highlight ed?
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