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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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.
i need teaching strategies
& the list of common vocabulary is used in our daily dialogs
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.
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.
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!
i need a direct information about strategies to improve speaking skills
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.
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
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
Thank you very much. It is very useful!
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
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.
You correctly stated all the difficulties of adults who can read and write in English but can’t speak. This is due to subconscious cross-translation into the native tongue. Since it is a subconscious activity adults can’t turn it off by will, they will need special tools for turning-off cross-translation.
The best tool is to read, listen and speak at the same time of English lessons. It is especially useful if you will have an option of selecting the lessons of your choice.
Dear Kenneth, I’m an ESL Trainer too and find your methods quite innovative. Thanks.
Dear Kenneth,
You are th ebest English teacher.