Научная статья на тему 'The importance of speaking skills for second language learners'

The importance of speaking skills for second language learners Текст научной статьи по специальности «Языкознание и литературоведение»

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SPEAKING / PROBLEMS IN SPEAKING / METHODS IN SPEAKING / ACTIVE SKILL / PASSIVE SKILL / HANDBOOK

Аннотация научной статьи по языкознанию и литературоведению, автор научной работы — Usmanova Dilnoza Muratovna

Speaking is one of the important skills in English learning as a second language. It shows the best influence when seeing goal of speaking learning process, especially in ESL (English Second Language). The goal of English teaching is to make students able to communicate well. Speaking is skill in the oral mode. Like the other skills, it is more complicated than it seems at first and involves more than just pronouncing words.

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Текст научной работы на тему «The importance of speaking skills for second language learners»

THE IMPORTANCE OF SPEAKING SKILLS FOR SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS Usmanova D^.

Usmanova Dilnoza Muratovna - Teacher, DEPARTMENT OF INTENSIVE TEACHING OF SECOND LANGUAGE, UZBEK STATE WORLD LANGUAGES UNIVERSITY, TASHKENT, REPUBLIC OFUZBEKISTAN

Abstract: speaking is one of the important skills in English learning as a second language. It shows the best influence when seeing goal of speaking learning process, especially in ESL (English Second Language). The goal of English teaching is to make students able to communicate well. Speaking is skill in the oral mode. Like the other skills, it is more complicated than it seems at first and involves more than just pronouncing words. Keywords: speaking, problems in speaking, methods in speaking, active skill, passive skill, handbook.

UDC 34 7.78.034

Introduction. Everyone, who wants to learn the English language as a foreign language, should learn every language skill: listening, speaking, reading and writing. The four skills of language are a set of four capabilities that allow an individual to comprehend and produce spoken language for proper and effective interpersonal communication. Language skill separates into two kinds that are active skill and passive skill. Listening and reading skills are passive skills. Passive skill requires us to use our ears, our brains to comprehend language and the written equivalent of spoken language. Speaking and writing skills are active skills which require us to use our vocal tract and our brains to correctly produce language through sound or to use our hands and our brains to produce the written symbols that represent our spoken language.

Methodology. All of the skills are important in communication. One of the most important skills in EFL (English as a foreign language) is speaking skill. Speaking is an act of making vocal sounds. We can say that speaking means to converse or expressing one's thoughts and feelings in spoken language. To speak often implies conveying information. It may be from an informal remark to a scholarly presentation to a formal address.

- Speaking skills are the skills that give us the ability to communicate effectively.

- These skills allow the speaker to convey his message in a passionate, thoughtful, and convening manner. - Speaking skills also help to assure that one will not be misunderstood by those who are listening.

Teachers almost face some problems in teaching speaking. Each problem is connected with decision in choosing suitable method in teaching speaking. Community language learning and communicative language teaching may be some samples of useful methods in teaching speaking. It is no dought that English is becoming a universal language and English is being spoken all over the world on a daily basis. We know that speaking demands the speakers to be productive to produce oral words and phrase into a sentence which finally can make people to communicate. In fact many of EFL students in university level don't well trained to practice the ability of speaking. This situation is found in class where ESP (English for special purposes) handbook used as the focus on students material in the class. The four language skills are taught in order of the students of computer engineering program be able to listen, speak, read and write in English [1, 134]. According to research many of computer engineering students cannot speak English properly. It takes serious attention when the students cannot speak properly as well. Speech plays a vital role in our daily life. Through speech we can express our point of view, feeling, ideas to other. In classrooms mainly where second language are taught the main thing foreign language are taught the main thing for most of students are to speak fluently and understandable with the target

language. The speaking skill includes a communicative ability to use language to chat and transmit message in various and appropriate phenomenon that are to say speaking is an important skill which deserves more attention in both and second language because it reflects people's thought and personalities. For speaking fluently and effectively there are some features which are very necessary to both learner and teacher in order to speak fluently. Teaching and speaking are very vital branch of second language learning. The ability to communicate in a second language clearly and efficiently contributes to the success the learners in school and success later in every phrase of life. Therefore, it is important that language teachers pay great attention to teach speaking. With the aim different speaking activities such as those listed above can contribute a great deal to students in developing basic interactive skill necessary for life. Speaking for EFL students is an effective activity which takes more practice and training. Actually, for teaching speaking skill, the researcher found some problems with both lecturer and also the students. Introduction Speaking is one of four skills in English which demanding the speakers to be skillful to produce oral speech and to know to use phrase in sentence. Because of that, speaking and writing is called as effective skill [2, 79].

Conclusion. Many of students in university do not well trained to produce the ability of speaking. Different speaking activities listed above can contribute a great deal to students in developing basic necessary skills for life. These activities make students more active in learning process.

References

1. Celce-Murcia M., 2001. Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language. USA:

Heinle&Heinle. 134 p.

2. Chaney A.L. and Burk T.L., 1998. Teaching Oral Communication in Grades K-8.

Boston: Allyn&Bacon. 79 p.

DETERMINATION OF SELF-PERCEIVED LISTENING COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES Kambarova D^.

Kambarova Dilnoza Musakulovna - Teacher, DEPARTMENT OF THE ASPECTS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE, UZBEK STATE WORLD LANGUAGES UNIVERSITY, TASHKENT, REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

Abstract: this cross-sectional overview points at exploring English instructing college students approximately their self-perceived tuning in comprehension techniques they utilize to comprehend tuning in writings. It is prescribed that Uzbek EFL learners ought to be made mindful of the importance of these procedures to improve their tuning in comprehension. English dialect instructors ought to give their understudies with suitable aptitudes of how to tune in, hindsight on tuning in handle and concentrate on practicing metacognitive and socio-affective procedures amid their tuning in errands. Keywords: cognitive, listening comprehension strategies, metacognitive, perceptions, socio-affective.

UDC 81-139

Introduction. It has moreover been detailed that in spite of these endeavors, English dialect educating has not appeared the specified comes about and Uzbek EFL learners fall flat to attain the required capability within the target dialect counting verbal aptitudes [3]. A developing mass of investigate has suggested that failure of accomplishing the required

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