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1、ADiscussionAboutSpokenEnglishTeachingBeingoneofthefourmicroskillsofEnglishlanguage,speakingplaysanimportantrole.Practicallyspeaking,itcanreflectone’sEnglishproficiencydirectly,whichisboundupwithjob-hunting,socialcommunicationetc.Ontheotherhand,togethe
2、rwithspeaking,itisproductiveskill,throughwhichlanguagelearnersproduceoutput.AccordingtoSwain’s“OutputHypothesis”andLong’s“InteractionalHypothesis”,languagelearners’outputissignificantintheprocessofsecondlanguageacquisition(SLA).Thus,speakingcanalsofac
3、ilitatelanguageacquisition.Basedonsometheories,previousstudiesandtherealitiesofspokenEnglishteachinginChina,thisessayaimstodiscussspokenEnglishteachingfromtwoaspects:whattoteachandhowtoteach.1.WhattoTeach1.1CommunicativeCompetenceBeforethediscussionab
4、outwhattoteachinspokenEnglishclass,thereshouldbeaninsightintothelevelsofknowledgeandskillsinvolvedinlanguageuse.CanalandSwain(1980)termedtheknowledgeandskillsinvolvedinlanguageuseas“CommunicativeCompetence”,whichtheydividedintothreelevels:grammatical,
5、sociolinguisticandstrategic.KeithJohnsonrenamedthefirstoneas“systematic”.Systematiccompetencecoverstheknowledgeandskillsrelatedtothewaylanguageworksasasystem.Thiscompetenceincludesknowledgeandskillsaboutpronunciation(phoneticsandphonology),grammar(mor
6、phologyandsyntax)andwordsmeanings(semantics).Evenhandwriting,spellingandpunctuationareinvolvedwhichare“mechanicalskills”.Sociolinguisticcompetencecanbefurtherdividedinto“rulesofuse”and“rulesofdiscourse”.Theformeronemeanshowtouselanguageappropriatelyin
7、differentcontexts.Thecontextsherecanrefertobothdifferentcountriesandsomeconcretesituations(e.g.wedding&funeral;restaurants&shops).Indifferentcountrieswithdifferentcultureandcustoms,speakersshouldobeylocal“rules”tousethelanguage.Thesamegoestodifferentc
8、oncretesituations.Thelatter’functionistojoinlanguagetogether,inotherwords,toachievethecoherenceinalanguage.Strategiccompetencecanbedescriedas"verbalandnun-verbalcommunicationstrategiesthatmaybecalledintoactiontocompensateforbreakdownsincommuni