UNIT 8 SPEAKING

      UNIT 8

      SPEAKING

Speaking is a productive skill similar as writing. it involves usng speech to comunicate meanings to another people. We use the language completely accurately using the correct form o grammar and vocabulary. This productive skill involves several subskills, those are the following.

•      Making use of grammar, vocabulary and funtions.
• making use of register to speak appropriately.
• using features of connected speech
• using body language
• producing different text types
• oral fluency in which the speaker speaks at a normal speed, with little hesitation, repetition, self-correction, and with smooth use connected speech.
• using interactive strategie which means the ways of keeping people interested and invloved in what they are saying.

        Our porpuse in speaking is to communiate meaning. In addition, we use interactive strategies such as gestures, eye contact and facial expressions, turn-taking in order to make our message more clearly and stronger, also functions such as clarifying our meaning. On the other hand, Pahaphrasing is an interactive strategy it reffers to use other wordsn to say the sae thing in order to get the message across. 

Fluency, accuracy and appropiacy also play a major part in successful oral communication. Fluency, helps to ensure that our listener will keep on listening to us with the objective of avoiding being bored. Accuracy is the use of vocabulary and production of sounds keeping our message clear and finally appropriacy is another way of keeping our listeners involved. We use the right register to treat our listener with the appropriate formality or informality.

         This link will be very usefull for you to improve your speaking skill.

TOEFL Speaking Practice! by Lauren Tanya Walters https://youtu.be/y6oa7d7gCCo 

BLIBLIOGRAPHY

(Mary Spratt, 2011)