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Selasa, 27 September 2011

How to Improve English Speaking For Students


To most people, speaking is the most difficult part when learning a foreign language. Although everyone knows that the best way to speak a language fluently is to practice speaking as much as possible, not many people can do this.
Learners often hesitate to speak because they are afraid of pronouncing the words wrongly. In fact it is very difficult to correct a mistake in pronunciation later if you don't pay attention to it from the start.
The advices :
- you should try to pronounce the words right from the very first lessons.
- Be patient when pronouncing new words.
- If you make a constant mistake in pronunciation, you should record the right pronunciation of that word and listen over and over again so that you will be familiar with it.
- You can find short stories in the language you are learning, in books or on the internet and read them aloud at home.
- In this way you can roughly judge how good your pronunciation is and gain more confidence when speaking to others later.
- You can also try to think in the language you are learning.
- It may sound crazy but speaking to yourself in a foreign language is very effective for your learning.
Others :
 Of course the best way to improve your speaking skills is to talk with a native speaker.
 That also means the best language class is the one which has a native speaker as the teacher.
 The foreign teacher usually uses only the language being learnt in the class and refuses to speak in any other.
 Therefore you can become more familiar with the language you are studying because you are forced to speak in it.
Talking to a native speaker in your country is good, however, talking to a native in his own country is far better. If you can afford to travel to the country where the language that you are learning is spoken and stay there for some time, it's the fastest way to improve your speaking skills. When you are surrounded by a new language everyday and no one talks to you in your mother tongue, you have to try your best to speak in that language to survive! Besides being able to learn how people really talk in their daily lives, you can also enlarge your vision with new views and enrich your knowledge about a different culture.

What do you do when students don’t want to put that extra mile to do a speaking presentation, so they get cold feet and read from their notes just to get by. Improving speaking skills takes a lot of classroom practice, motivation to speak, and skill. Sometimes it is necessary to think beyond the box, adding creative elements wherever possible depending of course, on the skills of your students and how open they are to creative thinking.
Improving the speaking skills of your students may be difficult, but the added benefit is building confidence in students for speaking skills and strategies. Even though the professional years are still way in the future, help your students by starting small. Teach both speaking and listening activities, sometimes even in one lesson, while preparing them for that future presentation. That way, students don’t feel the pressure and burden when it comes their turn to present a presentation due to remembering the fear of those earlier years during those speaking activities.

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