Importance Of Oral Communication

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2. 1. The need to Use Oral Materials in Developing oral Communication On the basis of the sentence uttered by Garvie (1979:23), “language is learnt by using it”, we dare say that the development of any language proficiency requires a set of materials to enhance learning. In this regard, some materials have to be put at learners’disposal. Among those materials, oral ones can be helpful since they permit students to practices the new language they are learning. Within the framework of language learning, we can not expect learners to speak English without first of all listening to it. Similarly, students cannot learn to understand natural spoken language if they are not in an environment where English is. In this contex, Abbott and Wingard (1985:85)…show more content…
Although in the classroom practice it is often necessary to concentrate at certain time on developing one of them, we share the same view with Byrne (1976:8) who declares that “oral communication is a two-way process between speaker and listener”, and this means that speaking and listening work hand in hand. From the above assertions, it is necessary to mention that speaking and listening skills require more practice in the favour of students in order to develop oral communication. Before embarking on oral materials that can be helpful in language learning in general and in developing oral communication in particular, let us first have a brief look at listening comprehension and oral production, and examine clearly the problems that learners encounter in those skills and what they need in order to overcome those problems. 2.1.1 Listening…show more content…
b) prepare the students psychologically for situations where they will not have a full understanding of what they hear. The systematic training they get through, will of course also help them in apprehending the general meaning of the message. From these authors’views, one may conclude that there have to be different activities to develop the listening skills systematically and progressively. Furthermore, students should be trained to understand, and respond appropriately to the kind of language they are learning. 2.1.2 Oral Production/Speaking Skills In the eyes of many researchers, students should be provided with opportunities to use language for themselves: to say what they want to say rather than what they are directed to say. Frankly speaking, the opportunities to say something have to be given to them, so that they can see the value and use of what they are learning. The attempt to express themselves has to be made because they need to know how to accomodate the little they know of the English language to the situations in which they have to use it, rather than be led to believing that they will be able to do this at some remote
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