Teacher speak: A need for speed??

Author: Rema ALABDULHADI
Date: Sun, 20 February 2011 -1:44:52 o'clock EST
Subject: Teacher speak

 

This is a good discussion point and "in my opinion the best way for speaking as a native speaker is that when the teacher separate the words at the beginning and then speed up” Because students need to know the foundations of the language first. Moreover, teachers should speak clearly and then as time goes on, a teacher naturally speeds up his or her speaking speed and students will used that.

If the students used to hear slow speech at English school, they might have a big shock if they get to try their English in real-world ((outside the classroom)).

So, one advantage of speeding up the speech in the class daily is that they practicing spoken English the way that natives use it and this is useful for us as an overseas student to understand the native taxi driver or the waiter in restaurant for example.

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