Structured Task (Teaching Speaking to Young Learners)

Nisrina Nurmilah
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1. Based on the theories you have learnt about teaching speaking to young learners, what is your firstly consideration on teaching them?

My first consideration on teaching speaking to young learners is I have to be a good model for them with song or maybe conversation and some games. In teaching speaking to young learners the creative of the teacher is a very recommended, so that we should doing the funny activity.

2. Why can speaking be integrated with listening activities?

There are several activities that integrate listening-comprehension with speaking:
- Integrated skills work (jigsaw-listening, for example)
- Using video
- Using the language laboratory
- Using computers and CD-ROMs
- During games
- Using pop songs (probably the most popular listening activity with secondary students)
- Listening as homework
These activities integrate speaking because the songs, videos or listening text-topic is the springboard for a discussion, drill or pronunciation practice. Integrated activities also provide opportunities for much needed pupil behavioral-interaction described by Lynch (1997) earlier. Dictations integrate listening and speaking. Although they have not been very fashionable dictations are at the moment once again seen as relevant. Dictations may also be used as a means to evaluate pupil´s listening comprehension, as long as the scoring is carefully done. Telling a story is a suitable material that provides listening material, students can predict what will happen or they can describe the characters in a story, it is a good way of improving vocabulary. In pairs, they can also do an interview or a conversation. It is a good method because aside from listening, they are integrating speaking and it is a motivating activity when they think of their own questions or the subject is funny and interesting. There are also activities with films, for example, where students can analyze some trailers or describe characters of their favourite scenes.

3. From the practices of teaching speaking to young learners, choose one of them and please tell me about the procedures detail.

I choose Listen and Doing
Procedures :
The topic is about Fruits and then the teacher say about Apple and then the student response on the teacher’s instruction by pointing first the Apple or maybe by showing the Apple fruit and the second one after doing teacher ask “what fruit is it?” and then the students answer the teacher’s question by using Apple. So from this activity we combine between TPR and also speaking.