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In my opinion, first of all a teacher has to ensure his/her students that they shoud not worry much about

the quality of their ideas and focus on the quality of their speaking.

If they focus on them too much they will be constantly thinking of the correct language to use and this
will lead to lots of hesitation and pausing.

Many students have great vocabulary and grammar, but they never actually use this language by
speaking or writing. This causes huge problems for both pronunciation and fluency, 50% of the score.

With time they will probably get use to implementing correct grammar structures alongsde with the
vocabulary learned, but getting too much pressure because of this will never help them to overcome
their inhibitions when speaking. The activities like discussion, debates and brainstorming are thought
provoking, develop higher order thinking skills, accuracy and fluency.

Undoubtedly grammar and vocabulary count towards 50% of students' score and they are very
important, but thinking about them too much will lower coherence.

Besides, any skill, speaking requires practice and unless you practice often, you are not going to be able
to get one of the higher bands. So the stuudents should be exhorted into practising their speaking skills
and that's how both fluency and accuracy will be developed.

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