ملخص الجهاز:
"ـــ shows new teachers what they need to know ـــ allows existing teachers to check their knowledge of recent developments, approaches, and issues ـــ covers the backgrounds, characteristics, and experience of learners ـــ raises awareness of how the first language impacts on any subsequent language acquisition ـــ fosters knowledge of how English works and how this can be applied in the ES (O)L context.
According to Hadley (2003), the appropriate teaching strategies are likely to vary depending on students’ level of proficiency but at all levels teachers should provide opportunities for students to practice speaking in a range of contexts likely to be encountered in the target culture with a range of functions in dealing with others in the target culture (cited in Mirhassani & Ghaemi, 2007).
Sayer (2005) believes that with the emphasis that communicative language teaching places on oral production, by the time most students reach intermediate level they can produce fairly extended spoken discourse.
One of the teacher's tasks in teaching spoken English is to help learners achieve an acceptable speed along with other attributes of fluency.
Students who do not learn colloquial contractions can sometimes develop a Therefore, communicative competence includes linguistic competence and a range of other sociolinguistic and conversational skills that enable the speaker to know how to say what to say and when.
According to Harmer (1998), there are three basic reasons why it is a good idea to give students speaking tasks which could provoke them to use all and any language at their command."