1. Teaching Chinese speaking skills By YUE MING

2. Introduction  Speaking is an important aspect in learning language  My personal experience in learning foreign language  Many students struggle in their pronunciation and fluency fluency  What kind of teaching method is better to help students improve their short term speaking skills? students improve their short term speaking skills?

3. Purpose   Which method will help learners understand context better and promote them to speak as well as possible in real situations?

4. Two sides teaching method   Traditional Chinese teaching methods   Technology based teaching aids

5. Side One : Traditional Method   Mechanical memorization without any technology teaching aids   Advantage: the students can recite the text   Disadvantage: they can’t apply their learning to associate with their past knowledge

6. Side two: New teaching Method   Use the visual aids as supplementary to help learners to understand the content   Advantage: students can apply their learning in the real situation   Disadvantage: will visual aids affect pronunciation?

7. Methodology   Made survey   Selected 18 students at beginning level   Divided into two groups   Gave the same paragraph and vocabulary list to each group

8. Methodology   One group uses traditional method, the other uses technology-based method   Test how much they understand the paragraph through three aspects: * Pronunciation * Accuracy * Fluency

9. Methodology   I take the average score   Compare two groups’ final average score, the highest score can be adopted as the better teaching method

10. Results

11. Problem  The pronunciation is not obviously different from two groups.  Two groups have same problems with some certain words.  For example: zou lu (to walk) henxihuan (like to do) henxihuan (like to do) chuquwan (go out to play) chuquwan (go out to play)

12. Conclusion   The new method with the pictures helped learners to understand the text better   The new method helped students apply their learning into real situation rather than the traditional method   Especially reflect in accuracy and fluency

13. Future Work   Test this method in one or two semester   How to help students improve their pronunciation in short term   If the teacher can’t find proper visual aids, what kind of method should they adopt to help their learners, still keep the traditional method?