The Importance Of Speaking Skills

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Most of the language learners will strive for a good and fluence speaking skill after they learn the target language for a certain period. For ESP/EAP/ESL classroom, classroom interaction and presentation in English dominates the learning process thus this explains why speaking skill is extremely important in language learning classroom. Not only that, in an interactive classroom, learners need to be able to engage in small talk, group discussion or pair work thus speaking skill plays important role as the communication medium. However, speaking skill has not be the main focus in conscious learning, especially for conventional teaching and learning approach, but speaking or communication skill has become the essential competence in the society. …show more content…

The main purpose of communication output is to deliver information so, the strategy to deliver accurate information by using the right language is very important. Strategy in speaking skill can be said as an attempt do develop learners’ linguistic and sociolinguistic features in target language (M Lessard, 1997). Anne Burns (2102) presented an effective speaking strategy can refer to Teaching-Speaking Cycle that emphasized on few key concepts that the teachers can use to facilitate their students. The Teaching-Speaking Cycle has seven stages in total to focus on learners’ speaking skill in target language. In this cycle, teachers need to attract the learners to let them focus on speaking and provide input element. For the third stage, teacher can start to conduct the speaking task either by dividing them to groups or pairs. Next, teachers need to focus on language skills or strategies that they can use. For the example, if the teachers want to focus on develop learners’ speaking skill, they can conduct a task-based communicative approach classroom, whereby the learners need to solve the problem by interacting in target language in the classroom. For the fifth stage, teachers need repeat the speaking tasks but the teachers may change the questions, as long as the speaking practice is being carried out. For the last two stages, it is more to learners’ responsible whereby they need to reflect on their learning and let the teachers give feedback on their learning. This cycle is a very good classroom strategy to promote speaking skill in target language and to increase the applicability of speaking skill in the

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