4 techniques in teaching speaking

4 Techniques in Teaching Speaking

            Speaking is an activity which requires people to put their idea or thought in spoken form. Speaking becomes so important since this is the best to have direct interaction with other people. Thus, it is no wondered that speaking skill must be learned if someone wants to have good interaction and make a friend. However it is not an easy job to teach speaking especially in the school. Here, there are 4 recommended techniques that can be applied by teacher in conducting speaking class.

1.     Talking chips technique.

Talking chips technique is one technique of cooperative learning which allows all students to speak in the class. In this technique, students are given a certain number of chips (coin, card, etc) to be used as media which limit student’s time talking. To apply this technique, there are some steps to follow:

-          Teacher groups the student which consist of four students

-          Teacher give the topic discussion

-          Teacher ask the student to start the discussion by putting the chips

-          Students speaking until they put all the chips they have

This technique will get the student fun and serious at the same time. Moreover, this technique will be very useful to use in junior and senior high school.

2.     Three Steps Interview

 This is another technique of cooperative learning that can be used to teach speaking. In this technique, students are divided into some group in which each group consists of three students. Those three students are named student A, B, C. Since the learning is begun, the student will make an interview following the steps below:

-          Teacher gives a topic discussion.

-           Student B (interviewer) will ask some questions related to the topic given to the student A (interviewee I). He or she must take a note of every answer or opinion given by student A.

-          The same questions are also addressed to the student C (Interviewee II). Student B has to note the answer or opinion given by student C.

-          Student A, then, asks to student B about student C answer or opinion and appositely student C also ask student B about student A opinion.   

This technique will require student to speak up especially in giving opinion of a certain topic as well as to listen the other people opinion. They can express their mind and be habit to speak in English. This technique can be used to teach student in Junior High School.

3.     Desuggestipedia

This technique can be very useful if the teachers are able to create and provide an appropriate topic to discuss. In applying this technique, students are ordered to choose an occupation or job provided by teacher (singer, doctor, manager, etc) and they must be able to act or behave just as real as possible like the occupation chosen. In this case, student will imagine and pretend how to be a doctor, or singer, or even manager and the teacher will give some question regarding to their job. This technique will bring a lot of fun in the class and it is very appropriate to teach student in Senior High School.

4.     Three Phase Technique

This technique can be categorized as traditional technique since the focus of the strategy is on building the student courage to speak. Thus, the class is conducted following three phases; those are Pre- speaking, Whilst-speaking, and Post-speaking activity. 

-           Pre-speaking activity

 In this phase, teacher will give some brainstorming about the material discussed and make sure that the student will not feel afraid in following the lesson. Teacher must prepare them to be ready before moving to the whilst-activity.

-          Whilst-speaking activity

This is the core of the technique because many task or exercise van be involved in the phase. Teacher can do answer and question section, game, etc. in the class.  The most important is to give a chance to the student to speak up.

-          Post-speaking activity

It is simply can be done by giving a test or evaluation to the student.