HOW TO LEARN AND TEACH ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS EFFECTIVELY (MS LE HUYEN)

Speaking skill is considered to be one of the most important skill of all the four skills which should be mastered by all students. By using speaking, students are capable of expressing and conveying their meaning, thought ideas, beliefs and opinions orally to other people in a dialogue form even it is a formal or informal dialogue inside or outside the school. As known speaking is considered to be the most common tool in the communicational process.

Learning English language successfully is associated with mastering skill and having the ability to speak English efficiently in the other hand mastery in speaking skill is always equivalent to knowing the English language.

Speaking as the main part of the oral productive skill in which both sender and the receiver (speaker and listener) are actively involved in the educational process where they can easily negotiate and interpret meanings. The speaker (sender) has to encode the meanings he/she wants to convey to the listener to be able to understand and interpret the message clearly. Both the speaker and the listener must catch and deliver the meaning that the message includes is he/she has speaking competence. He/she must have many chances and opportunities to catch competence. Motivation is needed in practicing as it is the cause which leads anyone to reasons to learn this language.

Teaching language’s skills especially speaking skill require the teacher and the learner to have complex activates as it needs student’s capacity like fluency, grammar, organization, pronunciation and content. Students are described as good students and good in content if they have the ability to use concepts and words which are suitable for the experience and knowledge of any general accent. They are described to be good in organizing if they have the ability to manage the ideas to have good grammar, if they have the ability to make sentence without errors of grammar and word order.