Good
morning/afternoon/night everybody! today we are going to make a list of some advices
to take into account if we want to enhance our pupil’s communication skills and
to stimulate the oral interaction in class.
We have
based our work in different articles and some notes that you must study for the
coming exams so we hope it to be helpful to shore up the acquired knowledge. First
of all, what we have to know about the oral interaction competency is that its
objective is to promove a spontaneous and natural use of the english, and there
is needed an important condition: The english must be the only language used in
class.
Another
factor wich is very important is to be very carefull with the preparation of
the class, given that we will have to take into account our pupil’s level, and
also to aware that we will find some gaps in our pupil’s knowledge and we will
be ready for compensate them.
So we will
pay attention to prepare the class to elements like: the focus of the task;
pupil’s needs; resources (audiovisual support is usually the best); previous
knowledge; strategies and methodology...
Talking
about resources, wich one would be a good resource to improve the oral
interaction competency? Well, students should have access to different kind of
resources like banks, cards, posters, computer programs...wich will introduce
the vocabulary and expand the record of words that pupils must use. Also these
resources shall contains expressions and others useful english expressions.
It’s
important for pupils to have access to different resources because through
managing and handling them, they will take control of their own learning
becomming more autonomous.
What should
we teach them first? Pupils don’t need a lot of vocabulary, expressions and
general language to interact each others, they just need what they will use.
This functional language that they will learn must be related with the daily
activity in class, but that does not mean that it have to be a specialized or
technical language, they must lacquire the basic knowledge to start to interact
with their classmates and with their teachers as well.
To
implement this vocabulary we can use some technics (and also we must use the
mentioned resources as well) like the association between physical actions and
the sounds that does actions means, like pointing the door, waving our hand...
Also we
must stablish some routines (greetings,pleasentries...).
But what we
is the most important thing to improve the oral interaction competency?
Practice. We have to make sure that our pupils have enough opportunities to
interact in class and we shouldn’t scold them for speaking in class (always
that they were speaking in the right language of course). In our didactic
sequences we should include a lot of activities that implies oral interaction,
otherwise, pupils will not retain the learning because they can’t practice
their new skills.
See you soon!