1. Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Certificate IV TESOL
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
10317NAT
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2. Unit 5 Session 16 November 5th
In this lesson we will look at:
Lesson planning
The teacher’s role during speaking activities
Speaking materials – research activities
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3. Lesson Planning Stage Features of the stage
Building knowledge of the field
Introduce the text and register
Observe grammatical structures used. Do some practice exercises and activities (written and spoken)
Build vocabulary range
Modelling the text
Analyse text structure
Discuss the cultural aspects of the interaction
Observe turn-taking strategies
Controlled speaking practice
Joint construction
Transfer the genre to another situation (e.g. shopping to upholstery fabric)
Individual construction
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4. Lesson Planning
Practise activities – to help students practise a specific aspect of spoken language.
There are two types of activities that should be given equal attention within each lesson:
Controlled –accuracy being the goal
Free – fluency being the goal
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5. Lesson Planning Activities to develop accuracy
Activities to develop accuracy are tightly controlled.
The process of the activity is carefully described;
The language produced during the activity is tightly prescribed;
The teacher usually keeps a high degree of control over what is happening during the activity;
The teacher also offers immediate correction and intervention when errors occur;
Example activities:
Chorus repetition after the teacher, or substitution drills with a variety of prompts (pictures, single words, etc.)
See more examples on pages
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6. Lesson Planning Activities to develop fluency
Activities designed to develop fluency are less concerned with the grammatical accuracy of the language produced in the process. Instead, they are more concerned with:
The completion of a task which is dependent on being able to communicate something;
The activity giving a communicative context requiring the use of structure students have been practising;
The transfer of newly gained knowledge and skills to the communicative task
Example activities:
Roleplays where situations and characters are loosely described and the language to be used includes what they have been learning.
TASK
Can you describe one speaking activity for each of the goals?
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7. Lesson Planning Developing speaking skills
It is helpful to offer a range of activities moving from tightly controlled practice for accuracy to free activities facilitating practise for fluency.
When introducing new language in the context of speaking genres we want to begin with the practice activities that will offer the learner as much support and correction as necessary, and then engage in activities with less support, moving towards free activities which will incorporate structures and vocabulary that you have been focussing on in your practise for accuracy. 7

8. Communicative activity examples:
TASK
Describe two speaking activities for developing accuracy and fluency using the examples on pages 91 – 98.
Picture description
Information gaps
Games
Discussion groups
Interviews
Surveys
Roleplays
Find the differences
Describe and arrange
Find someone who…
Show and tell
Negotiations (many possibilities)
Rank order
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9. The teacher’s role during speaking activities
Controlled – the teacher will maintain complete control of the process, indicating when learners should speak and indicating what they should say.
Controlled-free – the teacher will be seen wandering the classroom listening closely to language production and offering feedback and correction when errors are apparent.
Free – the teacher’s role is to set up the activity, give clear instructions, and get the learner started. The teacher can monitor the groups to see that the activity is progressing, prompt where necessary to get the group going again, and make notes on common errors which can be addressed at the end of the activity.
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10. TASK
Turn to page and read the case study in TASK 5.1 of your workbook.
Complete TASK 5.6 – use the template provided in your workbook on pages to write a lesson plan focused on Teaching Speaking.
Use the model on pages of your text book as a guide.
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