TKT Teaching Knowledge Test Unit 8: Speaking

As we have got knowledge, speaking skill is the last of the four skills of English language acquisition. This skill is as productive skill as writing skills. Speaking is engaged to produce language in learning acquisition of the foreign language to make learners to speak focused on intonation, production, tone of voice, etc.

That´s why we consider we have learned a lot based on this unit. For example, we learned that in speaking is so important to ask for clarification, using the most suitable words at the moment that someone doesn’t understand something. Moreover, we could learn to monitor at the moment of applying speaking activities in which we could notice how students are doing the activity and how we can give a feedback to improve this productive skill in the students. Additionally, we learned based on the mistakes about words and sentence stress in pronunciation which gave us a clearer idea on how to pronounce words and sentences. In addition, we noticed that we should paraphrase sentence in order to give the same meaning in other words. However, we took into consideration that the most important part in speaking is to speak fluently and naturally according to the formality and informality applied  based on the context employed and the interaction between two or more people.

To sum up, we know this unit is going to help us as teachers in English teaching language because we really know that learners needs to implement interactive strategies to produce communication between them with the purpose to convey meaning based on the accuracy through grammar and vocabulary implemented to become communicative learners of the foreign language.     

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