Strategies and Techniques for Teaching Speaking Skill

One of the greatest challenges of L2 learner, is the ability and confidence to speak in a language other than their L1. However there are a lot of strategies and techniques that could be used to make them speak no matter what.

            Firstly, a teacher can easily get students talking by introducing themselves, and describing one or two things about themselves. For instance, I can start by using five adjectives to describe myself and they can also take turn to do the same.

Also by allowing students, to speak on topics, they are familiar with, everyone can easily speak on a topic they know a lot about, we all find it easy to recall amazing stories in our life, you can ask them to speak about “A Day I Will Never Forget Easily”. Although they might make errors while talking but focus less on that and pay attention to the fact that they are speaking.

              The Students should be provided with cues, teacher should ensure that the students are provided with mind map or life map, this will help them to be open to ideas on what to speak on.

            The teacher can also role-play and allow the students to mimic the level of fluency and encourage them even when they don’t get it right.

In addition, teacher can engage the students with activities such as, debate, interview, chess game, all these will encourage the students to pipe up in the class.

            In conclusion it is expected than a teacher who wants to encourage  students to speak must be patient and friendly, this will make the students to feel at ease and communicate with confidence.