Unit 8

Speaking

    Unit 8 I reviewed about speaking is one of the four language skills. Speaking and writing are productive skills. Speaking is an interactive process of constructing meaning that involves producing and receiving and processing information (Brown, 1994; Burns & Joyce, 1997). Its form and meaning are dependent on the context in which it occurs, including the participants themselves, their collective experiences, the physical environment, and the purposes for speaking.First, when we want to communicate our meaning successfully to them. We use interactive strategies to help us achieve this. These include using body language such as gestures, eye contact, facial expressions and movement. Then, the way you listen, look, move, and react tells the other person whether or not you care, if you’re being truthful, and how well you’re listening. When your nonverbal signals match up with the words you’re saying, they increase trust, clarity, and rapport. When they don’t, they generate tension, mistrust, and confusion. If you want to become a better communicator, it’s important to become more sensitive not only to the body language and nonverbal cues of others, but also to your own. Finally, we are speaking involves making use of all the features of connected speech to convey our message. We use intonation, word and sequence stress, accurate individual sounds, linking and contractions to help convey our meaning. As a conclusion, all of those things are important when we are speaking every day. I would like to use information gap activities “describe and draw” one student has a picture which they must not show their partner. Then, all the partner has to do is draw the picture without looking at the original so, the one with the picture will give instructions and descriptions, and the artist will ask questions. We as a teacher should correct in speaking activities, not interrupting while they are going on, but giving feedback later.

References:

Area.dge.mec.pt,. (2015). What speaking is. Retrieved 27 April 2015, from http://area.dge.mec.pt/gramatica/whatspeakingis.h

Wikipedia,. (2015). Body language. Retrieved 27 April 2015, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_language