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Книга: Thornbury Scott «How to Teach Speaking»
How to Teach Speaking is a practical guide for teachers who want to improve their knowledge and develop their classroom skills in this area. The book includes:• a description of the characteristic features of spoken language. • an explanation of communication strategies that learners use. • ways to increase learner autonomy and confidence.• approaches to assessing speaking. • a Task File of photocopiable training tasks.
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The Role of Repetition in L2 Acquisition by Scott Thornbury
Repetition is one of the actions which helps to reinforce the material and create cognitive links to remember it better. Kids learn their mother tongue by repetitive use of language patterns. Through every repetition, they make their speech more complex not only in terms of lexical items, grammatical structures but also fluency. The same refers to L2 acquisition.
A well-known linguist Scott Thornbur y highlights the importance of repetition in creating meaningful cognitive links to learn a second language. He states that when organized in a thoughtful way repetition can become an indispensable part of language learning. For example, students are given a sequence of pictures and are asked to recreate the story based on those pictures. During the first attempt to make up the story, students focus more on communicating the main message: actions, places, people, etc. During the second or third attempt, they start using more complex structures and refine their speech. If for kids repetitions are fun and not boring, for adults a repetitive task must be varied in a format not to lose its efficiency and not to sound boring.
Scott Thornbury mentions some techniques which can make a repetitive task interesting for learners:
These techniques are the best ones to make repetitive tasks more efficient and less boring for students. They can be performed at any language level.
How I got ready for TKT exam
Have you ever taken any international exam? What’s the best way to do it? Alone? With or without somebody’s help? Below I’ll share my personal fresh experience of passing TKT exam (Teaching Knowledge Test).
My preface
TKT is a part of my CPD and development. My timeframe was pretty limited: well, the actual date of prep start was June and the date of the exam was November 2017. By preparation, I don’t mean getting ready from scratch. I strongly consider that if you don’t have background knowledge and teaching experience, your real prep time can take longer as it’s not possible to really manage all the reading lists, exercises, tests in no time. My preparation stage was getting accustomed with the TKT format and materials.
Understand format
To understand the format it’s better go to Cambridge website where you can download PDFs (Info, Handbook, Glossary).
TKT consists of 3 separate Modules that can be passed independently or together on the same date (I had two reasons to pass all 3 modules at once: 1) I love completing the project I take to fullest; 2) as my Cambridge center is in the capital, Kiev, where I had to arrive, hence I decided to pass 3 modules at the same time).
So, you have to get ready for the following components:
MODULE I. Language and background to language and teaching
— Part 1 Describing language and language skills
— Part 2 Background to language learning
— Part 3 Background to language teaching
MODULE II. Lesson planning and use of resources for language teaching
— Part 1 Planning and preparing a lesson or sequence of lessons
— Part 2 Selection and use of resources and materials
MODULE III. Managing the teaching and learning process
— Part 1 Teachers’ and Learners’ language in the classroom
— Part 2 Classroom management
Strategy
FIRST, create your ultimate list of books and resources to investigate. This is my prep list:
SECOND, practice as much as possible. Having my tight working schedule, I could devote only weekends to my TKT preparation. These are the resources I used:
THIRD, while reading the Cambridge Handbook, you can find extra Discover Activities information where there are more learning resources in the form of websites, books, tasks. Please pay attention to these infoboxes:
These extra boxes after each Unit (Note: there are 32 Units in the handbook) helped me create my personal additional reading list (of course, I didn’t have enough time to read all the books from A to Z, but after passing Cambridge Tests, I realized my weak points I had to focus on and looked through definite topics I had to refresh).
TIP. Don’t forget to share your plans with colleagues as there will be someone who has passed TKT already.
If you’re short of time, you can read the selected info you need. If you have more time for your preparation, I strongly recommend reading the books/links below:
Here you can also listen to TKT Feedback
All in all, you need to do your best, concentrate on time management and believe in yourself!
