SPEAKING/ORAL INTERACTION

In today's class, we have seen the difference between speaking and oral interaction: while developing oral interaction, you must negotiate meaning, make gestures, listen to the speaker... So, as teachers, we should create more oral interaction activities, because this kind of activities are not common in current lessons. We have to train our learners in filling the gaps of their oral language by using gestures, fillers, more simple words, etc.

Then, we did an activity called “What is she wearing?” in which Elvira described us how to color Brenda's clothes, then, we had to dress Brenda. Elvira's intention was to show us how to do a proper speaking/oral interaction activity:

1.Firstly, the teacher has to contextualize the activity.

2.Then, he/she has to revise the language the learners need to produce in the activity.

3. Give proper instructions

4. Distribute hands out.

5. Organize groups.

6. Let the activity starts

7. Monitor the activity (while describing, the teacher cannot be in silent, they must do positive reinforcement, questions...).

8. Provide feedback.

9. Reflect on the activity.

 

Finally, we moved on the practice part: we continued with storytelling, but this time, we were in charge of telling the story to our partners in order to practice it. We had our own self-assessment sheet of paper and another one to assess our partners, so this way we could do a proper feedback.