Event

Speaking Activities That Work

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Speaker: Clyde Fowle

Setting up speaking activities that work is always a challenge. The three major obstacles facing teachers seem to be

1. Do the students have anything to say on the subject;
2. Do they have the language required to complete the activity;
3. Do they have the confidence to use the language to complete the task>

This workshop will look at how short texts, both reading and listening, can be used as a springboard for speaking activities. Clyde Fowle believes that topical texts can act as a stimulus to students helping unleash their background knowledge on a subject. Texts can also provide useful language input offering students a model of the language being used and suitably designed tasks can help support students' own production.

In this session, participants will look at the benefits of using texts as a springboard for speaking activities with reference to several example texts.

Participants will be then given an opportunity to work with a selection of texts to create follow-on speaking activities to use with their learners.

Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Okayama JALT)

Cost: free

Venue: Okayama University Department of Education Room 5101

Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

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