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By Kenneth Beare, About.com Guide to ESL since 1997

Speaking Strategies

Thursday October 30, 2008
Many English students complain that they understand English, but don't feel confident enough to join a conversation. Here is a collection of speaking strategies, lesson plans, suggestion pages and more which will help you and your students improve English speaking skills in and outside of class.

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August 15, 2007 at 12:26 am
(1) Libby Cruz Báypoli says:

Thank you for tackling this kind of topics. It is very useful for us, foreign English teachers who have been in the USA only for academic purposes. This allows us to learn about and to help our students understanding cultural uses. Yours sincerely, Libby.

August 15, 2007 at 2:03 am
(2) raha says:

i need teaching strategies

& the list of common vocabulary is used in our daily dialogs

August 15, 2007 at 2:44 am
(3) Behzad Sheikh says:

Dear Mr. Beare,
I am an Iranian English Teacher working for the Iran language Institute( fomer Iran-America Society). I have been almost using your invaluable resources, experince and guidelines for quite a long time and have also been successful in disseminating what I have so far learned to a large network of professional teachers.To be honest, I feel indebted to you and your honorable colleagues for this generous, friendly and conducive atmosphere that you have well created for us, foreign English teachers, worldwide. Thank you again.

August 22, 2007 at 4:17 am
(4) thomas mathew says:

I am English Professor who has put in 37 years of teaching English. I get new ideas about teaching English through About.com. I am going to start a coaching programme for grammar through orkut.com. I can teach grammar in 10 hours time and I am sure if my strategy is followed any one can master E.Grammar within that time.

March 15, 2008 at 10:13 pm
(5) Princess says:

Hi! I am an ESL Teacher. I just wanna thank you for giving me tips and strategies on how to improve more my teaching skill. Your site has been helping me a lot on my profession. The information you are feeding me are all essentials and beneficial to me and my students. I’m so greatful for that. Keep it up guys and more power!

July 22, 2008 at 9:40 am
(6) jefferson says:

i need a direct information about strategies to improve speaking skills

September 29, 2008 at 6:46 am
(7) Mehrdad Rahmanpour says:

Hi.I think it’s better to talk about the effect of topic choice on student’s participation in EFL settings and provide some nice topics for young adults.

November 4, 2008 at 8:37 am
(8) Immi says:

Hi,

I started my career as an English teacher in Feb 2008 and since then I have been using the material that you sent me regularly. I have always found them very helpful as I had very less idea of teaching English as a second language when I am not a native speaker myself. But it’s so exciting to teach English!! Many thanks to about.com
I wonder if you could help in designing a proper course structure for a local college for the students of BBA and MBA.
with regards,
Immi

November 4, 2008 at 10:10 am
(9) Orlando Carranza says:

Thank you so much for all the useful things that we have learned throughout these years. Our students also benefited a lot with them. Keep up the good work, Kenneth.
O. Carranza

November 4, 2008 at 9:24 pm
(10) Daisy says:

Thank you very much. It is very useful!

November 5, 2008 at 7:30 am
(11) TULIP says:

thanks a million for the effort you do to help teachers . I have been teaching english for six years and I face some troubles concerning teaching english for kids and how I can make them motivated to learn and speak english. On the other side I am not a native speaker of the english language so I feel teeching kids made me loose my language how can I improve it
thanks

January 15, 2009 at 1:21 am
(12) efi dyah indrawati says:

Hi! I am an Indonesian and I teach English for diploma students. I want to thank you for your invaluable tips and strategies, especially on how to teach speaking. The information on your site are all important and beneficial to me and my students. I’m so indebted to you. Best regards,
Efi.

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