1. what it means to “ speak” ?
The English language is a foreign language in Arab countries, where most of the students of the senior high schools are not familiar with it and they use only in the class. Moreover, most of the students have no much time to learn it, in addition, there is no supporting to practice it outside their classes (Hetrakul, 1995) .
Teaching speaking indicates helping the learners of the target language to enhance their ability to interact successfully with.
Howarth (2001) defined speaking as a two–way process including true information, a true communication of ideas and feelings.
In addition, Luoma (2004: 2) defined speaking as; constructing the meaning in an interactive process containing receiving, producing, and …show more content…
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According to Ur (1996:43) , Speaking is the most important skill of the four skill of the language, however, people who know a language and speak it are indicated to as speakers of that language. Ur noted that speaking is a tool used in order to …show more content…
The effective speaker can obtain the audiences' attention and retain it until he/she completes the message.
4. Speaking skills help people, especially learners in their career success.
5. Speaking skills can also improve the personal lives of people.
3. The types of speaking skill
There are many different speech events that result in different types of texts that are special in their overall structure and the grammatical items types. (Hughes, 2002: 83) .
From Carter and McCarthy (1997) point of view, the genres are as follows:
1. Narrative: a series of everyday stories which have told to or have participated with an active listener.
2. Identifying: extracts such as biography or when people talking about themselves where they work or live.
3. Language-in-action: it means the data that recorded while people are doing things such as cooking.
4. Comment-elaboration such as giving urgent opinions or commenting on something or someone.
5. Debate and argument: such as the data in which people take up positions or explain their opinions.
6. Decision-making and negotiating outcomes Decision-making and negotiating outcomes: such as the data which shows the ways in which people use it in order to deal with decisions, unanimity or negotiate towards
The English language is a foreign language in Arab countries, where most of the students of the senior high schools are not familiar with it and they use only in the class. Moreover, most of the students have no much time to learn it, in addition, there is no supporting to practice it outside their classes (Hetrakul, 1995) .
Teaching speaking indicates helping the learners of the target language to enhance their ability to interact successfully with.
Howarth (2001) defined speaking as a two–way process including true information, a true communication of ideas and feelings.
In addition, Luoma (2004: 2) defined speaking as; constructing the meaning in an interactive process containing receiving, producing, and …show more content…
226) .
According to Ur (1996:43) , Speaking is the most important skill of the four skill of the language, however, people who know a language and speak it are indicated to as speakers of that language. Ur noted that speaking is a tool used in order to …show more content…
The effective speaker can obtain the audiences' attention and retain it until he/she completes the message.
4. Speaking skills help people, especially learners in their career success.
5. Speaking skills can also improve the personal lives of people.
3. The types of speaking skill
There are many different speech events that result in different types of texts that are special in their overall structure and the grammatical items types. (Hughes, 2002: 83) .
From Carter and McCarthy (1997) point of view, the genres are as follows:
1. Narrative: a series of everyday stories which have told to or have participated with an active listener.
2. Identifying: extracts such as biography or when people talking about themselves where they work or live.
3. Language-in-action: it means the data that recorded while people are doing things such as cooking.
4. Comment-elaboration such as giving urgent opinions or commenting on something or someone.
5. Debate and argument: such as the data in which people take up positions or explain their opinions.
6. Decision-making and negotiating outcomes Decision-making and negotiating outcomes: such as the data which shows the ways in which people use it in order to deal with decisions, unanimity or negotiate towards