Techniques
to develop teaching English skills are 4 basic skills (teaching listening,
speaking, reading and writing) and teaching with technology and assignment and
testing. There are important to teach and learn English language.
First,
Listening is the language modality that is used most frequently. It has been
estimated that adults spend almost half their communication time listening, and
students may receive as much as 90% of their in-school information through
listening to instructors and to one another. Often, however, language learners
do not recognize the level of effort that goes into developing listening
ability.
Second,
Teaching Speaking Many language learners regard speaking ability as the measure
of knowing a language. These learners define fluency as the ability to converse
with others, much more than the ability to read, write, or comprehend oral
language. They regard speaking as the most important skill they can acquire,
and they assess their progress in terms of their accomplishments in spoken
communication.
Language learners need to recognize
that speaking involves three areas of knowledge:
· Mechanics (pronunciation, grammar,
and vocabulary): Using the right words in the right order with the correct
pronunciation
· Functions (transaction and
interaction): Knowing when clarity of message is essential
(transaction/information exchange) and when precise understanding is not
required (interaction/relationship building)
· Social and cultural rules and
norms (turn-taking, rate of speech, length of pauses between speakers, relative
roles of participants): Understanding how to take into account who is speaking
to whom, in what circumstances, about what, and for what reason.
Third,
Reading teaching are two types of Reading aloud and Silent Reading. Reading
aloud to practice their reading accuracy and fluency in pronunciation. Silent
Reading is to read to get to know and understand what they read with a purpose.
Reading skills in English is a skill that can be trained to the learner and
abilities better. Teachers should have the knowledge and techniques for
teaching reading skills to students. Reading aloud technique 1) Basic Steps of
Teaching 2) Reading for Fluency 3) Reading and Look up 4) Speed Reading 5)
Reading for Accuracy, Silent Reading technique has the same characteristics as
the listening skills it have 3 forms 1. Pre-Reading (personalization,
Predicting) 2. While-Reading (Practice = matching, ordering, completing,
correcting, deciding, supplying/identifying) 3. Post-listening
(Test)
Fourth,
writing teaching, writing skills need to start by creating a system of writing
from Controlled Writing to Less Controlled Writing and to Free Writing.
Teachers should have the knowledge and techniques teaching Writing skills.
Writing skill focus on fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, grammar, and pattern content.
Writing technique has three methods 1. Controlled Writing (Copying, Re-ordering
Words, Changing forms of certain words) 2. Less – Controlled Writing (Sentence
Combining, Describing, Questions and Answers Composition, Parallel Writing,
Dictation) 3. Free Writing (Free write, Idea,
Imagination)
Fifth,
teaching with technology is important now because the world is going to 21st
educational. Teacher can use technology inside and outside the classroom by
using social network. The technology guesses it does make learning real.
Last,
assessing and testing is the last step to check students’ understanding. You
can choose the types of assessment to assess your students to help them to do
better next time, to test their knowledge at the end of something, to decide
the next lesson, to help them plan future lesson, to test their capability, and
to see how students are getting on. Moreover, teacher can design and making
test about this teacher taught by use direct and indirect tests item. Next,
using Rubric tool to assess students by using number 4, 3, 2, and 1.
In conclusion, there are important
six methods to teach and learn English language. Student should learn
about this. You can use them together for good English skills.
