ENGLISH CLASSES FOR ESL STUDENTS: TALK, TALK NOW

Talk, Talk Now was created as teaching option to improve students speaking skills through miltiple speaking activities.

Aim: The aim of this technique is to improve students speaking skills.

The Talk, Talk Now Technique offers the student a great variety of activities that will keep him/her talking most of the time. I believe that the best was of learning a foreign language is starting first with speaking; as a new born child that learn first how to talk and later the others skills as reading and writing.

This technique offers multiple activities to develop speaking skills such as: role plays, skecthes, record a video, record your voice, invent and say a short story, karaoke, sing a song, speaking alone and on.

These activities will be used during the week of classes, of course, you have to take into account your school or university schedule. for example, let´s say I am going to teach secong year students from the University of Panama (C.R.U.V). they take four hours of speaking per week so I distribute the activities for these four hours.
Note: All the activities will not be done in class because of lack of time, but these activities can be left as homework; for example, record a video, speaking alone, record your voice, etc.

To make your students more involved you as teacher can invite native, native like people, and higher level students to interact with your students so that they feel more comfortable and be able to speak.
Note: you can invite these people once a week.

This technique was created by myself as a thesis proposal for the culmination of my master degree.

Example of speaking skills: