Oral Aural Skill Building

WEEK 3

ORAL AURAL SKILL BUILDING

When I listened about the listening and speaking skills I thought about what is the purpose of language? And how did it evolve to play this role in our lives? I think the answer is that we need the language to declare something, to express feelings and attitudes; therefore language is a tool with which we do things, all ideas are then transformed into words, they must have correct syntax to be understood by the rest of the audience, for that reason our students need to be competent sharing correct information

I think English curriculum is based squarely upon the four skills listening, speaking, reading and writing, aural and oral skills can't be separated, while teaching reading, for example, teacher is  at the same time teaching other skills.

I think  to develop oral-aural skills, the activities which works best are those where we can use lively songs and games, some repetitions of stories, (retell the story) tongue twisters with total physical response (they motivate the students very much) all of them share, of course a high value of communication

I would like to share some ideas in order to develop skills:

• Create simple activities to understand for the students. It´s important to be clear in the activities and focus them directly where we want them to work.

• Create challenging assignments that match their skills, in addition to
that they can be completed, if the student can resolve the tasks  they are going to be motivated to do them and to learn.

• These activities should focus primarily on developing the expression
oral, which, combined with listening comprehension, but remember that these activities  requires much more time
to be develop during the process.

• Writing activities should be included gradually, especially among
 small children, whose writing skills are just developing
in their mother tongue.