Best Methods in Teaching Speaking Skills

Learn the best methods for getting ESL and EFL students to speak English and which tasks encourage meaningful interaction.

This course will address types and idiosyncrasies of the spoken language as well as micro skills of speaking that are factors in the oral code.

Review current issues in teaching oral communication by analyzing:

• conversational discourse

• pronunciation

• affective factors

This course will suggest fluency and accuracy activities that can be used in and out of the classroom.

Learn factors that hamper improved speaking skills for ESL and ESL learners including:

• specific contexts

• performable variables

• colloquial language

• pronunciation factors

• interaction

Note: A strong command of English is a prerequisite for this course. (iBT TOEFL:80, TOEIC:760) 

This is a required course for the Professional Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) certificate program.

Course Number: LING-40050
Credit: 3.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: Teaching English as a Foreign Language

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10/10/2022 - 12/9/2022

$500

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• SECTION ID:

  166619

• CLASS TYPE:

  Online Asynchronous.
  
  This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
  You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Corona, Andreea, Linguistics Lecturer at UCSB; English Language Fellow in Turkey 2013-2014; online TESOL Program Subject Matter Expert and instructional developer

  Andreea Corona currently serves as a Continuing Lecturer in the Linguistics Department in the English for Multilingual Students (EMS) Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she teaches multiple levels of academic reading and writing courses for international undergraduate and graduate students. In her fifteen years of teaching thus far, she has taught a variety of academic courses in intensive language programs such as at the University of San Diego, where she also received her Master’s in Education in TESOL, Literacy, and Culture, as well as several composition courses at community colleges throughout the San Diego area. She has also taught internationally in Italy, Mexico, Romania, and Turkey, where she served as an English Language Fellow for the U.S. Dep...Read More

• TEXTBOOKS:

  REQUIRED

  How to Teach Speaking 1st
  by Scott Thornbury
  ISBN / ASIN: 0582853591

  You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.

• POLICIES:

  No refunds after: 10/12/2022.
  Early Enrollment Discount: $475 ($500 if enrolled after 9/19/2022).
  

• NOTE:

  This is an Online Asynchronous course. All instruction and course materials delivered and completed online between the published course start and end dates. You will have access to your course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed, if you enroll on or after the published start date. To login to your course, go to your MyExtension account, select My Courses, select this course and then click the link that appears under Online Provider.

• DATE & LOCATION:

  10/10/2022 - 12/9/2022
  extensioncanvas.ucsd.edu
  You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.