TEACHING SPEAKING SKILLS THROUGH A MULTIPERSPECTIVE APPROACH

Abstract

Speaking is an essential skill which enables language learners to play with the target language in their own thinking and creativity. It is also a complex and dynamic skill that requires detailed planning to teach in a classroom environment. On the one hand, foreign language learners feel challenge as they attempt to improve their speaking skills. On the other hand, foreign language teachers struggle to appeal to the needs of language learners as a result of the scarcity and ambiguity of the pedagogies in transferring the skills necessary to produce oral communication performance. This necessitates studies on providing foreign language teachers with a clearly guided approach to teach speaking skills. The aim of this study is to investigate the main approaches in teaching speaking skills in English as foreign language classrooms and to provide a multiperspective approach to implement in the speaking skills courses. This study guides foreign language teachers in their path to teach speaking skills systematically and effectively.

Keywords

• english language teaching
• teaching speaking skills
• approaches to teaching speaking skills
• multiperspective approach