Tips for improving your speaking

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TIPS FOR IMPROVING YOUR SPEAKING
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INTRODUCTION
Speaking is one of the most clearly recognised
language skills.It is unique among Writing,
Reading and Listening because, unlike them, it
cannot be done silently.Speaking means actively
producing meaningful sounds with your body
mouth, tongue, teeth and so on, using breath from
your lungs. There are also appropriate facial
expressions and hand gestures that accompany
speaking.For all these reasons, Speaking is your
most physical language skill.So, as with other
physical skills, such as playing tennis, you
have to practise speaking.
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MICRO-SKILLS
The skill of speaking includes a range of
micro-skills, including pronunciation of over 40
phonemes, active recall of vocabulary,
production of suitable grammatical structures,
and social /cultural behaviour such as turn
taking.
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PRONOUNCIATION
Lets look at Pronunciation. Some of the
challenges of English pronunciation relate to
differences between the sounds of English and
the sounds of your first language.I suggest
finding out what these are, being aware of them,
and working on what are called minimal
pairs You might have difficulty with L and
R for example, which can also affect your
listening and spelling, such as collect or
correct.The solution here is the position of
your tongue. Listen carefully to yourself and to
other speakers of English.
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FLUENCY
Your practice should also include working on
Fluency.That is, when you speak at a normal pace
and do not worry about small mistakes but keep
the conversation going with lots of vocabulary,
questions and exclamations, using intonation
(the musical rise and fall of your voice) like
native speakers.Fluency practice is like a
tennis player actually playing a game, different
to working on improving backhand or serving
during training.
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MISTAKES
Mistakes are an opportunity for learning.This
brings me to a final point how do you respond
to error correction, that is, when people ( a
teacher or classmate or others) point out an
error in your speaking?Sometimes you might feel
discouraged that you have made another mistake (
maybe a persistant one) but try to welcome the
correction as an opportunity to learn and
improve.Also, look deeper into this mistake and
try to really understand why it happened, or
keeps happening. Then work on a plan for changing
it.You can also correct yourself by actively,
critically, listening to your own speaking and
reflecting on your conversations later.I hope
you find these tips helpful. Enjoy your speaking!
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