Hello everybody,
I have got some speaking tips which I hope will be useful for everyone. We non-native speakers always face up to these problems and these will probably help improve our speaking. There are 8 speaking tips: 1. clustering (collocation) Collocation is a group of words orginally made by native speakers like (to have breakfast) which is a collocation. So, in this point, we should also try to know more words with regarding to collocation.
2. morphem Morphem talks about how to create words. It is about "prefix, suffix, root". It is very useful for academic writing. Anyway, Paul will post this on the website very soon.
3. reduced forms (contraction) It is about how to shorten some words like : I will -> I'll
- I have --- I've
- I would/had--- I'd
In speaking, we had better try to understand these shortened forms, but in writing we should use "the full form" of each.
4. feedback (insert words) It is very important to pay attention attentively and give our feedback to the speaker. This shows our interest and attention in words somebody tries to tell. For example, we nod our head. or We nod or murmur something such as "mm-hmm" as a sign of interest.
5. idioms/phrasal words Idioms are usually special to one language and cannot be translated word for word because its meaning is different from the meanings of the separated words in the expression. Phrasal verbs are verb phrases used with a particular particle/preposition and often translated into a different meaning word for word...eg. put up with...
Idioms are common in all kinds of English, formal and informal, spoken and written. However, informal spoken language is often very idiomatic. We students should not worry because we do not know all the idioms. If we use non-idiomatic ways of expressing ideas, we can also be understood. And if we can know more about the culture of English better,
we can use them also.
6. rates of delivery This talks about speed. Do not speak too fast or slow but speak to be enough to be heard or understood.
7. stress/rhythem/intonation Stress is in a word. Intonation is in a sentence. Questions often have a raising tone. "Are you a student?" In speaking, it is important to use this because if we speak straight without showing our ending a sentence it will be very difficult to understand. For instance, we end our sentence with a pause.
8. interaction[/b]
It talks about our communication with other people. Can we communicate with other people without causing comprehensive difficulties or a breakdown of communication? Ideas are always necessary for communication. :wink:
Honestly, I am still learning or working on these myself; equally important, these are components we should develop. What do you think?
May you enjoy these!
