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1、ADiscussionAboutSpokenEnglishTeachingBeingoneofthefourmicroskillsofEnglishlanguage,speakingplaysanimportantrole.Practicallyspeaking,itcanreflectone’sEnglishproficiencydirectly,whichisboundupwithjob-hunting,socialcommunicationetc.Ontheotherhand,togetherwithspeaking,itisproductiveskill,throu
2、ghwhichlanguagelearnersproduceoutput.AccordingtoSwain’s“OutputHypothesis”andLong’s“InteractionalHypothesis”,languagelearners’outputissignificantintheprocessofsecondlanguageacquisition(SLA).Thus,speakingcanalsofacilitatelanguageacquisition.Basedonsometheories,previousstudiesandtherealitieso
3、fspokenEnglishteachinginChina,thisessayaimstodiscussspokenEnglishteachingfromtwoaspects:whattoteachandhowtoteach.1.WhattoTeach1.1CommunicativeCompetenceBeforethediscussionaboutwhattoteachinspokenEnglishclass,thereshouldbeaninsightintothelevelsofknowledgeandskillsinvolvedinlanguageuse.Canal
4、andSwain(1980)termedtheknowledgeandskillsinvolvedinlanguageuseas“CommunicativeCompetence”,whichtheydividedintothreelevels:grammatical,sociolinguisticandstrategic.KeithJohnsonrenamedthefirstoneas“systematic”.Systematiccompetencecoverstheknowledgeandskillsrelatedtothewaylanguageworksasasyste
5、m.Thiscompetenceincludesknowledgeandskillsaboutpronunciation(phoneticsandphonology),grammar(morphologyandsyntax)andwordsmeanings(semantics).Evenhandwriting,spellingandpunctuationareinvolvedwhichare“mechanicalskills”.Sociolinguisticcompetencecanbefurtherdividedinto“rulesofuse”and“rulesofdis
6、course”.Theformeronemeanshowtouselanguageappropriatelyindifferentcontexts.Thecontextsherecanrefertobothdifferentcountriesandsomeconcretesituations(e.g.wedding&funeral;restaurants&shops).Indifferentcountrieswithdifferentcultureandcustoms,speakersshouldobeylocal“rules”tousethelanguage.Thesam
7、egoestodifferentconcretesituations.Thelatter’functionistojoinlanguagetogether,inotherwords,toachievethecoherenceinalanguage.Strategiccompetencecanbedescriedas"verbalandnun-verbalcommunicationstrategiesthatmaybecalledintoactiontocompensateforbreakdownsincommuni
