Part A: 1O%

Read the article Using Creative Strategies to Promote Students Speaking Skills by Mona Khameis,
Merashid School for Girls in Fujairah.
QUESTION Location of Answer/ Paraphrase
the answer from Article
Own Interpretation Related Article
/Information

2.0
What strategies
motivate students
to speak and
participate?
1 page

engage these ten and eleven year
old students in communicative
activities that would improve their
speaking, specifically by using
songs and puppets.
(pg 111 para 2)

implement some creative strategies
to develop students speaking
skills, based on the use of songs
and puppets
(pg 111 para 3)

songs, poems, chants, drama,
stories, games and Total Physical
Response (TPR) activities. All
these activities can affect young
learners and enhance their learning
the language
(pg 112 para 4)

songs are one of the methods
that achieve a weak affective filter
and promote language learning,
and can be used to
present a topic; practice language;
stimulate discussion of attitude and
feelings; provide
a comfortable atmosphere and bring
variety and fun to learning.
(pg 113 para 2)

puppets can be used to teach the
language functions and the social
skills of greeting, responding to
conversation, and initiating
conversation.
(pg 113 para 3)


I have students who rarely
raise their hands when I ask a
question. I often get frustrated
because some students do not
attempt to speak at all. This is
a worldwide problem in an
ESL classroom everywhere.
The teacher is faced with a
serious problem of passive
students and the teacher is
trying to look for a solution to
make them active participants
but does not succeed always.
In this article, Mona
Khameis, is using songs and
puppets to promote students
speaking skills.
1. Making
students speak:
MAP formula
Http://www.teac
hingenglish.org.
uk/blogs/albertra
yan/making-
students-speak-
map-formula

2. Inspiring
students to
become
Enthusiastic and
motivated
learners
http://www.amer
ican.edu/soc/facu
lty/upload/Palme
r-CTE-Building-
Student-
Engagement-
Handout.pdf

QUESTION Location of Answer/ Paraphrase
the answer from Article
Own Interpretation Related Article
/Information

3.0 Explain the
teaching used and
how was data
collected 1 page


songs that I created, which were
related to the units, used as
warming up activities.
used the puppets to talk, using
dialogues that they were given to
practice and then present to their
colleagues.
(pg 113 para 5)

observations, surveys,
questionnaires, interviews, and a
research diary. questionnaire was
used to get a response from a
selective group, whereas the survey
was used to collect data from a
large group
quickly; interviewed the classroom
English teacher, a daily diary to
record my private thoughts from
specific observations
(pg 114,115 )

The use of songs and puppets
is a very clever way of
making students to speak.
Many students love singing
and they can express
themselves better in songs.
Some students even have
extracted stanzas and have
incorporated it in their essays.
Puppets are the best thing
mankind has ever created.
Students love to talk through
a puppet rather than face to
face. They feel more secured
when using a puppet and
making mistakes when
speaking seems to be a norm.
Observation, surveys,
questionnaires, interviews
and research diary have been
used as a tool for collecting
data about people, processes,
and cultures in any research.
The writer has used all these
methods in order to obtain a
better logical way of data
collection. This is ensure that
what she has done to be more
accurate.


1.Improving
Teaching and
Learning
with Data-Based
http://www.lesn.
appstate.edu/olso
n/RES5080/Com
ponents/Articles
_used_in_5080/P
ruthero%20Impr
oving_teaching_
and_learning_wi
th_databased_de
cisions.pdf

2. Assessing and
Evaluating
Student Learning
http://www.ed.g
ov.nl.ca/edu/k12/
curriculum/guide
s/english/primar
y/studentaccess.p
df


QUESTION Location of Answer/ Paraphrase
the answer from Article
Own Interpretation Related Article
/Information

4.0Discuss the
findings of the
study 2 pages


Action research is made up of a
four step process: identifying an
area of focus, collecting data,
analysing and interpreting the data,
and developing an action plan,
which is again evaluated, and the
process continues until a
satisfactory result is reached.
(pg 114, para 1)

From the findings, three
themes emerge from the data
collected. The first, is the use
of songs and puppets resulted
more language being
produced by the students.
Next, we see students
speaking actually improved.
Finally, students were more
motivated to participate in
class as a result of the
introduction of these
activities. The teacher of the
class was indeed impress and
also jealous at the strategies
Mona Khameis used. The
teacher was also awed that
her students were producing
more language than she had
expected. Apart from these
two observers, another
English teacher who had been
observing Mona Khameis
implementation of songs and
puppets noted that the
students enjoyed the songs
and it helped the students to
produce the language related
to the prescribed units.


http://www.heac
ademy.ac.uk/ass
ets/hlst/documen
ts/research_gate
way/research_ga
teway_section7_
discussion_of_fi
ndings.pdf

QUESTION Location of Answer/ Paraphrase
the answer from Article
Own Interpretation Related Article
/Information

5.0Do you think
you can apply the
method in your
classroom? 1
page


teachers consider implementing
other strategies to promote
students speaking skills,
such as presentations, interviews,
role plays and show-and-tell
sessions. (pg 117, para 1)

Encourage students to bring
their own language, customs
and values into the classroom
Making instruction
meaningful by connecting it
to students own experiences
and showing the connection
between school and home.
Provide opportunities for
class discussions, social talk
and guided conversations.
Differentiated instruction,
learning materials, grouping
structures, and targeting the
amount of scaffold on the
students learning ability
Expose students to a wide
range of authentic multimodal
texts.

1. Brace, J.,
Brockhoff,
V., Sparkes.
N., Tuckey, J.
(2006).
Speaking and
listening
resource
book. Vic
Rigby. pp 41-
43.pdf

1.0 INTRODUCTION
2.0 STRATEGIES TO MOTIVATE STUDENTS TO SPEAK AND PARTICIPATE
3.0 METHODOLOGY
4.0 FINDINGS
5.0 PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS
6.0 CONCLUSION



























Part B: 1O% - 5 pages

Write an essay on the topic:

Teaching of Listening and Speaking is Neglected in the ESL Classroom
SUGGESTED INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE
NAME:
SCHOOL:
AGE
QUALIFICATION
YEARS TAUGHT

1. How many hours a week do you teach Listening?
2. How many hours a week do you teach Speaking?
3. How do you plan Listening lesson?
4. How do you plan Speaking lesson?
5. Describe your typical Listening lesson.
6. Describe your typical Speaking lesson.
7. What do you think your students feel about Listening lessons?
8. What do you think your students feel about Speaking lessons?
9. How can you improve Listening lessons?
10. How can you improve Speaking lessons?



TEACHER ONE
DIALOGUE
A
B





TEACHER TWO
DIALOGUE
A
B




1.0 INTRODUCTION
2.0 PROBLEMS IN TEACHING LISTENING
3.0 PROBLEMS IN TEACHING SPEAKING
4.0 IS THE TEACHING OF LISTENING AND SPEAKING NEGLECTED? (quote
from interview)
4.1 Teaching Hours (listening/speaking)
4.2 Method of Teaching Listening
4.3 Method of Teaching Speaking
4.4 Students Reaction towards Listening/Speaking
4.5 Improvement to the teaching of Listening/speaking
5.0 CONCLUSION


Guidelines:
Examine your school to determine if listening and speaking is given equal importance as
reading and writing
Interview TWO teachers in your school who are involved in teaching English.
Ask them how far is it true that teaching of listening and speaking is neglected or given
less importance.
Be precise as you have only 5 pages.
Make references and include it at the end of the essay

















Part C: 20% - 10 pages [excluding teaching aids]

STAGE CONTENT TEACHERS ROLE STUDENTS ROLE






Using the Cyclical Approach in Teaching Listening design an activity for teaching listening
skills to your students. Prepare an entire 60 minute lesson for teaching listening.

Your LESSON PLAN should include the following elements:

Year
Focus
Topic
Rationale for choosing the listening activity
Time
Learning Standard
Set Induction
Previous Knowledge
Teaching Aids Audio clips or audio recording
Content Standard
Learning Standard
Learning Objectives
Cyclical Approach [explain in detail each step and activity conducted in the classroom]

o Pre-Listening
Teachers role
Pupils role
o During Listening
Teachers role
Pupils role
o Post-Listening
Evaluation
Reflection [your opinion]
o Weakness
o Strength
o Improvements that can be made

APPENDIX: [Submit photographs, screen shots or scanned documents]
o Worksheets
o Flash cards
o Exercises
o Audio clip [also include a transcript]
o Any other relevant teaching aids used