Seminar 11.

Teaching productive skills: Speaking

Plan
1. Speaking as interaction: give definition, describe skills
involved andgive examples of activities.
2. Speaking as transaction:give definition, describe skills
involved andgive examples of activities.
3. Speaking as performance:give definition, describe skills
involved andgive examples of activities.
4. Fluency and accuracy in speaking
5. Structuring activities: Pre-speaking, While-speaking, and
Post-speaking.
6. Give examples of exercises for teaching speaking at the Pre-
speaking stage.
7. Give examples of exercises for teaching speaking at the
While-speaking stage.
8. Give examples of exercises for teaching speaking at the Post-
speaking stage.
9. Internet resources for speaking skills development: give
examples, define the stage where each resource can be used. (a
few people can take this question and talk about different
resources)

Rubric for the seminar

# Criterion Description of best performance Score

1. Performance Student talks on at least one of the 40

questions in the plan, explains how they
understand them, uses visuals and gives
examples

2. Interaction with Student asks at least two questions about 10

the peers while their topic to their peers while presenting
presenting
3. Participation Student actively participates in the 20
discussion, adds to the other students’
answers
4. Visual support Student uses some visual support for 30
(a presentation, a better disclosing of the topic, provides
poster, a scheme) his/her own opinion concerning
discussion points
Total 100