The main purpose of EFL teaching is the development of the four basic skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. From my experience, speaking is the most difficult skill to develop in the context of our educational system. How do you make your thirty students speak? Can their progress be assessed without forgetting the rest of the course syllabus?
I must admit that I mainly focus in the formal aspects of the language since there are too many students in each class. An excuse? Perhaps. Which of you shall cast the first stone?
So the students' level of language input (listening) is usually higher than the level of language production. I use many speaking activities to enable pupils to participate with a minimal verbal response, but when they are encouraged to manipulate language and express themselves, that's a different story. This is when a little extra help is required.
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