MODULE 5

Question 1

According to him, the mastery of speaking skills in English is a priority for many second-language or foreign-language learners.

Answer 1

Richards (2008)

Question 2

What are the three functions of speaking?

Answer 2

Talk as interaction, talk as transaction, talk as performance

Question 3

This is the production of speech either in writing or speaking.

Answer 3

Fluency

Question 4

Correctness of language either written or spoken

Answer 4

Accuracy

Question 5

Fluency is derived from the Latin word fluens which means)

Answer 5

to flow

Question 6

Refers to the use of correct forms where utterances do not contain errors affecting the phonological, syntactic, semantic discourse features of a language

Answer 6

Accuracy

Question 7

What are the three components of Second Language Speaking Competence?

Answer 7

Knowledge of Language and Discourse, Core Speaking Skills, Communication Strategies

Question 8

Requires mastering the sound patterns of the language

Answer 8

Knowledge of Language and Discourse

Question 9

Refers to developing the ability to process speech quickly to increase fluency

Answer 9

Core Speaking Skills

Question 10

Involves developing cognitive strategies to compensate for limitations in language knowledge

Answer 10

Communication Strategies

Question 11

What are the skills to develop for effective speaking?

Answer 11

Vocabulary, Grammar, Pronunciation

Question 12

This refers to the normal meaning of conversation and describes interaction that serves a primarily social function.

Answer 12

Talk as interaction

Question 13

It refers to situations where the focus is on ehat is said or done.

Answer 13

Talk as Transaction

Question 14

It refers to public talk, that is, talk that transmits information before an audience, such as classroom presentations, public announcements, and speeches.

Answer 14

Talk as Performance

Question 15

This means breaking up the learning into small portions and providing a tool or structure with each portion.

Answer 15

Scaffolding

Question 16

What are the current approaches to the Teaching of Speaking (Jack Richards) ?

Answer 16

• Speaking and oral interaction is seen as the basis for learning.

• Non-native usage as well as native usage noth serve as models.

• English for cross-cultural communication is a primary goal.

• Models in classroom materials are often informed by corpus analysis.

• Functional or other types of communicative syllabus predominate.

• Both accuracy and fluency are a primary goal with greater tolerance of errors.

• Oral proficiency is viewed as dependent upon mastery of lexical phases and conversational routines.

• Cultural awareness is addressed.

• Pair and group activities predominate in classroom.

Question 17

What are the factors affecting task difficulty in speaking?

Answer 17

Data that the learners are working with, the task itself, the factors that are internal to the speakers themselves.

Question 18

What it the most difficult skill to teach according to Richards (2008)?

Answer 18

Talk as Interaction

Question 19

What skill is more easily planned since current communicative materials are a rich resource of group activities, information-gap activities, and role plays that can provide a source for practicing hoe to use talk for sharing and obtaining informations as well as carrying out real-world transactions.

Answer 19

Talk as transaction

Question 20

What are the steps in making role-play activities for talk as transaction?

Answer 20

Preparing, modeling and eliciting, practicing and reviewing

Question 21

What are the steps in a speaking Lesson?

Answer 21

• Warm-up
• Pre-communicative Task
• Practice
• Speaking Task
• Feedback
• Reformulation

Question 22

Assessing speaking skills focuses on?

Answer 22

1. Fluency
2. Pronunciation
3. Vocabulary
4. Accuracy
5. Interaction

Question 23

What are the types of assessment tasks in Speaking

Answer 23

• Imitative
• Intensive
• Responsive
• Interactive
• Extensive

Question 24

The ability to imitate words/phrase drills

Answer 24

Imitative

Question 25

Give examples of imitative tasks/tests

Answer 25

Repetition Phone pass test

Question 26

Produce short stretch of language (sentence completion)

Answer 26

Intensive

Question 27

Give examples of intensive tasks

Answer 27

• Directed Response Task • Read-aloud Tasks • Sentence Dialogue Completion Tasks and Oral Questionnaire • Picture-Cued Tasks

Question 28

Involves interactions with an interlocutor (short conversations)

Answer 28

Responsive

Question 29

Give examples of responsive tasks.

Answer 29

Question and Answer Giving Instructions and Directions Paraphrasing Test of Spoken English

Question 30

Includes multiple exchanges and/or multiple participants (interaction and transaction)

Answer 30

Interactive

Question 31

Give examples of interactive tasks.

Answer 31

• Interview • Role play • Discussions and Conversations

Question 32

Involves complex, relatively lengthy stretches of discourse (speeches, oral presentations, storytelling)

Answer 32

Extensive

Question 33

Give examples of extensive tasks.

Answer 33

• Oral Presentations • Picture-cued Story Telling • Retelling a Story, News Event

Question 34

Assessing Speaking Skills

Answer 34

• Assessing the speaking skills of students can be very challenging for teachers in English. • Developing oral skills is a real challenge since Filipino students do not live in an English-speaking environment • Success is speaking is able to communicate the message effectively using accurate and acceptable use of the language.