مجلة الواحات للبحوث و الدراسات
Volume 16, Numéro 2, Pages 274-282
2023-12-31
A Discourse Perspective To Teaching The Speaking Skill In An Efl Classroom
Authors : Kouti Malika .
Abstract
Academic studies imply that students master one of the most important skills which is speaking. Learning to speak in English entails knowing how native speakers use the language besides the grammatical and semantic rules. Some EFL learners mainly the ones studying at Algerian universities do not give focus on the speaking skill despite its importance (Saville-Troike, 2006), which poses many questions such as what kind of activities teachers use to teach this skill. As a matter of fact, a discourse perspective to teaching speaking implies using a number of tasks, strategies and competencies that stress appropriateness in using the language (Celce-Murcia & Olshtain, 2000). That is, the speaking skill should be taught and fostered through a diversification of activities. To this end, the present paper focuses on teaching and improving the speaking skill by adopting a discourse perspective and using a variety of activities. It starts with defining speaking, the speaking importance, and the speaking functions, then it sheds light on speaking in the language classroom.
Keywords
speaking skill ; EFL learners ; discourse perspective ; speaking importance ; speaking functions ; speaking activities
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