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important that teachers should have another task to encourage students to speak English more both in and out of class. During learning English, students need teachers’ recognition and respect, which will give students more confidence and motivation to do better.
After students finish their speaking in class, teachers should let students feel they have made some progress with a sense of success. It is necessary for teachers to pay more attention to the following.
1). Let students be firm in a gentle way and give them praise whenever they are speaking a little English.
2). Be sincere and look for opportunities to let students speak English freely, and never get them shy, frustrated and nervous.
3). Be a kind, sensitive, and approachable person to all the students, and never let a single student out or put him on the spot.
4). Treat all the students with the same attitude, respect them, and consider their opinions fully. Never embarrass any of them and laugh at them.
5). Allow students to have more freedom rather than expect them to conform to the preconceived ideas about how they should behave. Let them have confidence, and wait for them to follow you.
Of course, teachers should point out some apparent mistakes in their speaking kindly, for example, some words in wrong pronunciation or some serious grammar mistakes after they finish their speech.
C. Some Practical Methods in Teaching
Practice makes perfect. Teachers should ask students to do more practice in the students’ spoken English learning, and it is very important for teachers to choose the right methods.
1. English Daily Report
Teachers should ask students to give daily report in English before class, and topics could not be confined. Students should say something in plain English that happened around them, including some news or jokes, whatever they are willing to say, for 3～5 minutes.
In order to get good results, teachers can ask students to prepare reports beforehand. At beginning, students can choose some simple topics and tell it in simple English, for example:
“Hello, everyone! My name is Tracy, I’m 14 years old. Today is Monday, May the 11. The weather is fine and it’s a good day for picnic. And I will go to Kunming this weekend with my parents. I wish you a good day. Thank you.”
Later, they can go on with some complicated topics or even some important political or economic news which has abundant information. Therefore, students can start with a speech without much difficulty to improve their oral English gradually and effectively. It is very useful that this kind of practice should be given to students. However, it must be
fair for everyone to have a chance to practise, because it’s very important and necessary to those students who are timid and not active in class. It does not take much time in class, and it’s a direct, simple but useful way for students to improve their oral English.
2. Role- play
To stimulate the students’ interest in learning, Role- play is a suitable way, and it needs the good corporation between students and the teachers. This kind of practice can not only draw students’ attention, but also consolidate their knowledge and skills of daily words and expressions.
Before the role-play, the teacher can divide students into several groups and help them choose some topics which are interesting and usually new, such topics about something on campuses, at home, on roads or among frien