Teaching Speaking Skills in the Young Learners’ Classroom

Conclusion
Teaching listening and speaking to young learners is a demanding and responsible task for the teachers. However, if the teachers understand children’s needs for developing listening micro-skills and strategies, for having opportunities to use language in meaningful communication, and for engaging in a variety of listening and speaking activities that are fun, interesting and meaningful, they will help children build a very solid foundation for language acquisition.
Combining the approaches, varying the cognitive styles, mixing and matching various methods and tools – e.g. songs, games, chants, rhymes, dialogues, etc. – provide the students with maximum variety and (in turn) offers them plenty of opportunities to play an active part in communicative situations, ranging from simple imitation to conscious exchange and internalization of certain vocabulary items/ pronunciation styles / grammatical points / communicative techniques, at the same time building strategies that will help them later on when their knowledge of English has advanced and moved to a higher level.[…]


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