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TEACHING SPEAKING Dialogues and monologues
Teaching dialogue means arranging a series of training exercises to master all of its possible components lexical and grammatical models typical of real-life communication and to train communicative reactions to what is heard
Modify and repeat
Learn and repeat
Answer together according to the model
Complete, enlarge upon or reduce the utterance
Paraphrase using synonyms
Fill in the blanks with the items provided
Making utterances according to the model, or key-words, or pictures, etc.
React to the questions using the model/structure but changing words
Transformations of all kinds
React within the time limit
Restore the missing cues according to the content or intention
Change time references, places, participants, conditions
Commenting on what is hear, seen or done
Asking for information/additional information
Expanding operative memory and practising speaking
Listen to a conversation/dialogue and repeat in pauses provided
Listen to find out illogical content/utterances
Learn by heart and perform the dialogue
Listen to the dialogue and react to what you hear/separate clues, etc
Listen and agree or disagree
Complete or shorten the dialogue
Continue the dialogue according to the intention, theme, etc.
Expand upon the dialogue to make it more informative (horizontally/vertically)
Change the dialogues according to the intention, goal,
Dramatize the dialogue
Listen, interrupt and continue
Cross-references
Make up a dialogue according to the model/theme/intention/strategy, etc.
Intention-based communication teaches self-initiated communication (dialogue/monologue) one initiate and the other reacts (interest, knowledge, individual thought, conclusions,
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Self-initiated dialogue is more difficult than stimulus-reaction dialogue
Reconstruct the dialogue adding details, facts, new viewpoints but retaining the general structure, intention and theme
Self-initiated dialogue practice differs according the stage of learning and level of language competence
Translation exercises in oral interpretation
Teaching monologue usually undergoes three stages
building language habits
teaching to choose language means according to the communicative situation
logical combination of speech patterns in discourse
Exercises and task can be grouped into receptive, reproductive and productive, reactive and self-initiated
Exercises and tasks can be classified into imitation-based to practise all kinds of language forms, patterns, individually or in chorus important mechanisms are memory for different volumes of information, visual and auditory reactions. Exercise here are varied and numerous
Exercises based on image, name, associations, actions.
Exercises based on repetitions of all kinds
Dividing the text into logical parts
Answering questions on the content and conditions of the situation
Asking questions to find out the necessary information
Identifying the main thought, fact, etc.
Reproducing the source utterance with lexical or grammatical changes paraphrasing
Narrations, descriptions, argumentations, classifications, definitions, etc.
Retelling according to the communicative intentions, goals, conditions, etc.
Logical restructuring and recombination, references and repetitions, restoration of content
Exercises that involve logical and semantic analysis of the form and content
Teaching self-initiated monologue
Utterances are already programmed according to topic, goal, intention, conditions
Attention is to content and meaning
These exercises teach students to express thoughts and opinions, and various kinds of speaking skills
Making stories of all kinds and of all sizes
Commenting on topics, themes, events, facts, opinions, decisions, problems, etc.
Reproduction of utterances in the full, reduced or expanded format
Reproduction of utterances in the paraphrased format
Text restoration, completion, reduction
Explanations, definitions, illustrations, argumentations, etc.
Ways to control and assess speaking skills
Form
Meaning
Strategy
Conditions
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