Promoting Oral communication skills
Riggenbach and Lazaraton
They suggested some oral activities that can be
used in ESL/EFL classroom. The activities are categorized into distinct types.
They are drills, performance activities, participation activities, and observation activities.
Unlike reading, writing and listening activities, speaking requires some degree of real-time exposure to an audience. So, as teachers, we have a responsibility to prepare the students as much as possible to be able to speak in English in the real world outside the classroom.
The article brings about significance information for us. Therefore, as language teachers must remain open to the new developments in order to provide the best possible instruction for our students. By knowing strategies in teaching oral skills, we can create materials which is best suit us.
