After all we have read this week about Oral/Aural skills and how to develop them through CALL and considering that the class I will work with in this Project has two main weaknesses: speaking and grammar (according to a group self assessment) I am thinking about focusing on the integration of these skills especially speaking as the objective of my project in the context of a thematic unit.
So I have started to search about how to learn strategies to speak rather than specific activities.
It will be a challenge for my students as much as for me, because it is the skill I feel more insecure to teach, as I have said before it is not just settting up a speaking task,we have to teach students strategies and tools so they are able to speak in a foreign language.
Dear Mariangel,
ReplyDeleteNice blog!!!
I agree with you, speaking is the most difficult skill to be developed, but I think we have to be creative, I am going to use some reading and listening activities supported by web activities and later my students would have to write a report or discuss about the topic. It is going to take time, but what hard work is easy?
Regards,
Ale
Hi Mariangel,
ReplyDeleteIt's so great that you're focusing on a project. This is wonderful.
Donna