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1、ADiscussionAboutSpokenEnglishTeachingBeingoneofthefourmicroskillsofEnglishlanguage,speakingplaysanimportantrole.Practicallyspeaking,itcanreflectone’sEnglishproficiencydirectly,whichisboundupwithjob-hunting,socialcommunicationetc.Ontheotherhand,togetherwithspeaki
2、ng,itisproductiveskill,throughwhichlanguagelearnersproduceoutput.AccordingtoSwain’s“OutputHypothesis”andLong’s“InteractionalHypothesis”,languagelearners’outputissignificantintheprocessofsecondlanguageacquisition(SLA).Thus,speakingcanalsofacilitatelanguageacquisi
3、tion.Basedonsometheories,previousstudiesandtherealitiesofspokenEnglishteachinginChina,thisessayaimstodiscussspokenEnglishteachingfromtwoaspects:whattoteachandhowtoteach.1.WhattoTeach1.1CommunicativeCompetenceBeforethediscussionaboutwhattoteachinspokenEnglishclas
4、s,thereshouldbeaninsightintothelevelsofknowledgeandskillsinvolvedinlanguageuse.CanalandSwain(1980)termedtheknowledgeandskillsinvolvedinlanguageuseas“CommunicativeCompetence”,whichtheydividedintothreelevels:grammatical,sociolinguisticandstrategic.KeithJohnsonrena
5、medthefirstoneas“systematic”.Systematiccompetencecoverstheknowledgeandskillsrelatedtothewaylanguageworksasasystem.Thiscompetenceincludesknowledgeandskillsaboutpronunciation(phoneticsandphonology),grammar(morphologyandsyntax)andwordsmeanings(semantics).Evenhandwr
6、iting,spellingandpunctuationareinvolvedwhichare“mechanicalskills”.Sociolinguisticcompetencecanbefurtherdividedinto“rulesofuse”and“rulesofdiscourse”.Theformeronemeanshowtouselanguageappropriatelyindifferentcontexts.Thecontextsherecanrefertobothdifferentcountriesa
7、ndsomeconcretesituations(e.g.wedding&funeral;restaurants&shops).Indifferentcountrieswithdifferentcultureandcustoms,speakersshouldobeylocal“rules”tousethelanguage.Thesamegoestodifferentconcretesituations.Thelatter’functionistojoinlanguagetogether,inotherwords,toa
8、chievethecoherenceinalanguage.Strategiccompetencecanbedescriedas"verbalandnun-verbalcommunicationstrategiesthatmaybecalledintoactiontocompensateforbreakdownsincommuni