In the last meeting, Mr. sahar explained about Technological pedagogical content knowledge and he also asked us make a video that related with education, or using the technology for education.
so, i decided to make this video with title “how to improve speaking skill by yourself ”
I think you already know that if you want to improve your English speaking skill, you have to practice right? You have to speak.
Studying grammar will never improve your speaking skill, listening to English alone will never improve your speaking skill, you have to actually speak. But what if you don’t have someone to talk to in English ? have you can practice then?
Well there is technique that allows you to learn to speak English by yourself.
No speaking partner is required
This technique can help improve many aspects of your spoken English : your sentence structure, your grammar, your vocabulary and most importantly your ability to express your thoughts and ideas effectively .
So what is this technique ?
“Learning speaking English through imitation”
When I talking about imitation , I’m not talking about repeating after native speakers using the exact same word to improve your pronunciation
I’ m talking about something a little more advanced that that
You listen to a conversation a story , or some kind of speech , and then try to deliver that speech in your own words.
There are other ways too
For example ,instead of imitating small portions of speech like phrases and short sentences , you can imitate larger portions of speech
So in this case , you wait until the speaker complete a thought or an idea , then pause
And try to express that idea yourself
Another approach is to simply listen to the whole speech and then try to deliver that entire speech yourself.
This technique offers many benefits. You get to listen and imitate correct English which help you learn to form sentences properly.
You get learn to idioms , expressions and other speaking patterns that are used in a day to day Conversation. you get to learn grammar .
When you imitate other people ,you’re learning grammar through a process called implicit learning this is the process where the learning happens without your awareness
When you imitate , you don’t think about grammar . you’re not trying to understand why the present perfect is used this situation or in that situation , instead your focuses on communication – on understanding and expressing ideas. You’re still learning grammar but you are not aware that it’s happening .this is one of proper ways to learn grammar
hopefully this video have good impact for others. Thank you
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