Teaching Strategies to Stimulate Active Learning and Develop English Language Speaking Skills in an Online Environment

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Pages: 119-135
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/POFN5660

Abstract:

Beginning to speak a foreign language takes much longer than mastering the same skill in the native one. Among others, a possible factor for this is the lack of sufficient listening to foreign speech and of personally engaging conversation practice situations. This in turn could lead to a lack of confidence in pronunciation, difficulty in generating correct grammatical structures, and insufficient lexical diversity. The online environment gives the chance to compensate for the above deficiencies by ensuring practice of the linguistic aspects of speech, as well as a maximum number and types of situations to train speaking both inside and outside the classroom, whereas the instructor’s intervention aims at actively involving the learner in the learning process. Having formulated a definition of the concept of strategy, and by using the three modes of communication in foreign language teaching as a unifying framework – interpretative, presentational, and interpersonal (according to the ACTFL classification) – the article outlines some of the possible strategies an instructor could use to stimulate active learning and develop speaking skills in online English language training.

Keywords:

strategy; speaking; online environment; teaching; active learning; mode of communication.

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