1. Speaking Pedagogy
Workshop

2. Group Negotiation
What are the most important
aspects of speaking instruction?
Rank them from highest to
lowest priority.

3. Discuss the following terms as they relate to
the contexts in which you teach:
Communicative
Needs-based
Task-based
Authentic

4. Discuss the following terms as they relate to
the contexts in which you teach:
Fluency vs. Accuracy
Strategies-based Instruction
Interactional vs. Transactional
Student-centered Teaching

5. What is the teacher’s role in teaching
“speaking?”

6. Which of these speaking activities are
“communicative”?
Listen-and-repeat
Information Gaps
Summary response
Oral presentation/speech
Skit/role play

7. Which of these speaking activities are
“communicative”?
Interviews
Grammar drills
Debate
Describing images
Giving directions
Problem-solving/Group negotiation

8. Group Discussion
In groups of 4, share a speaking
lesson or activity you have used
before that worked well.
What were the communicative
elements of that lesson or
activity?

9. Micro vs. Macro Skills
 Micro: pronunciation, reductions, stress patterns,
intonation, grammar, phrasing
 Macro: Body language, facial expression, connect ideas,
register, situational communication, check for
understanding

10. Error Correction
Local vs. Global Errors
Affective Filter
Communicative
needs

11. Role of Pronunciation
Communicative
Stress patterns over individual sounds
Top-down and bottom-up
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12. Strategies-based teaching
Students monitor their own
production
Tell students the purpose beforehand
to target metacognitive strategies
Mini-lesson on strategy before a
lesson

13. Strategies:
 Cognitive and
Metacognitive
 Which are which?
Repetition
Mind maps
Association
Underlining key
words
Asking questions
Predicting
Monitoring
Plan/Organize
Evaluate

14. Practice!
Identify a task your students need.
Designate a strategy to apply to the task.
Create a mini-lesson for the strategy.
Design a communicative activity which
embeds a grammar point within the task.
Set clear objectives based on the students’
needs, communicative competence, and
strategic learning.