TEACHING SPEAKING SKILLS THROUGH VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES BASED ON DEFINITIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF WORDS
Keywords:
speaking skills, fluency, accuracy, appropriacy, authenticity, characteristics of speaking, principles of oral skills instruction, group work, presentation, role play, drills, vocabulary activitiesAbstract
This article reviews teaching foreign language methodology. The purpose of the article is to provide basic understanding of teaching speaking skills, the related issues, principles of instruction of oral skills, frequently-observed activities in communication classrooms and the vocabulary tasks based on definitions and applications of words. FL teachers can benefit gaining awareness of and applying the activities highlighted in the article to their speaking classes.
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