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Teach English in Buenos Aires: Teaching How to Speak
It is important to know how to incorporate every type of language learning into your English classes in Buenos Aires, these include speaking, reading, writing, and listening.
In the following blogs, we will cover each one so that you can implement them into your following English lessons in Buenos Aires.
Lesson 4: Teaching How to Speak
For most students, speaking is the most difficult aspects of the language, at least the most difficult to begin with. To speak well, you must know the vocabulary, verbs, general grammar, phonetics, and more, plus, you have to have the confidence to hear yourself out loud and making mistakes.
- Practice makes perfect. Have your students always speak in English. If you can help it, do not ever let them speak in their native tongue during a class. Even if they have to mime out what they are trying to say, help them along but make sure they are speaking English at all time.
- Combine their other senses with speaking. Have them read out loud so that they know what the word looks like and sounds like.
- Correct your students in a constructive manner. Don’t tell them they are speaking wrong, just correct them when they make mistakes, and reassure them that they are making progress. Always give your students confidence, when it comes to speaking, they are going to need it!
- Empathize with your students and remember that speaking is very difficult. If they get frustrated, give them a break and a chance to work on something else before you go back.
- Have them watch movies or television and listen to the accent of English while comparing the subtitles down below. This will help them expressions and the phonetics of English.
- Encourage them to get a conversation partner, live in a homestay or shared apartment with other Spanish speakers so that they can be speaking Spanish 24/7.
- Practice, practice, practice!!
Check out our previous posts: Reading, Writing; Listening
