effective speaking activity

                 Characteristics of a Successful Speaking Activity

         According to Ur (1996) an effective speaking activity has the following features:  

1.   Learners talk a lot. Classroom activities must be designed in such ways that provide opportunities for learners to talk a lot.

2.   All get a chance to speak. A minority of talkative students should not dominate Classroom discussions, and contributions must be fairly distributed. Classroom activities must be designed in ways that help all the students to take risk.

3.   Motivation is high. Learners are eager to speak because they are interested in the topic, and want to contribute to achieving a task objective.

4.   Language is comprehensible. Learners express themselves in utterances that are relevant, easily comprehensible to each other, and of an acceptable level of language accuracy. The teacher must also base the activity on easy language so that the students can use the language fluently without hesitation.

5.   Students speak the target language. The teacher must keep students speaking the foreign language.