In teaching English as a foreign language, many EFL learners keep asking this question.
Indeed I do. I teach radio broadcasting, which is about communicating verbally (without any visual cues). The ability to speak well and express oneself clearly is certainly a skill to be learned. Some people may be better at it than others without training, but everyone can improve.
The way to learn is to use the language and speak often, and then to self-critique.
For the second language learners, the best option is the direct method where the students directly speak target language without consulting the dictionary.
As a specialist in English teaching, I see both are required. The second language learner at school learns the idioms, grammar, and vocabulary enables him to learn how to speak simple or compound sentences. Also, it is acquired through direct communication with EFL learners or native speakers if he has the chance or if he exists in an academic society where the second language is the mean of communication.
This is a comment on Prof Marek's contribution. Any skill is based on a natural ability that can then be improved by teaching and practice. This applies in my speciality, translation, just as in yours. Indeed I wish trainee interpreters were given courses in speaking such as yours.
Both. First language(s)- more acquired, second language(s)-more learned.
J'approuve ce qu'a dit Khalid. Les deux compétences s'acquièrent en même temps. Si on tient compte de l'ontogenèse, nous constatons des phases d'acquisition du langage par d'abord, cette hiérarchie unverselle de la prononciation, selon Yakobson. Ensuite, le triangle parental et le milieu naturel selon Vygotski.
L'école et les institutions éducatives qui le relais, en introduisant de nouvelles stratégies dans l'apprentissage de l'oral, la maitrise de débit, le rythme, la clarté de la voix, l'intonation et l'accentuation.
Il doit en outre développer une compétence linguistique et langagière pour avoir un discours intélligible, compréhensible, pour avoir une confiance en soi.
yes, speaking skill can be learnt for both EFLs & SLLs, But in my concern, for FLLs is little bit difficult coz they are not familiar with the TL words and pronunciations.
Experience shows that it is both acquired and learned in a sustainable process. Speaking the native language is definitely acquired, still, it can be polished by education and functional practice. Speakers differ in their ability to speak basically due to some nonlinguistic factors related to personality and psychological state. As for foreign language learners, they mostly learn the language as a result of structured training or direct contact with native speakers. Thus the processes of learning and acquisition can not be separated or singled out. Foreign learners can learn the language to the degree that its use becomes automatic and fully effective and here it becomes difficult and perhaps impossible to disentangle acquisition from learning.
A mon avis, en ce qui concerne le langage, il y a des théories qui permettent l'acquisition comme :
- Les approches behaviouristes, une association stimulus et réponse. Elle doit être accompagnée d'un renforcement, d'une consolidation, selon Reuchlin (1986).
En outre, Skinner avec sa théorie de conditionnement du comportement verbal, par imitation.
- Les ap6proches inspirées de la linguistique de Chomsky, à savoir d'envisager une grammaire qui est la " "grammaire générative ", ou l'apprenant apprend à répéter des phrases qu'il a rencontrées dans des exercices, comme mon cas, je donne des phrases à transcrire phonétiquement. L'étudiant pourrait ensuite, les réemployer dans diverses situations.
- Les théories cognitives, l'apprenant va apprendre à traiterson langage, à l'accès à son lexique.
- L'interactionnisme:Tout enfant n'apprend pas à parler seul. Il lui faut un environnement. On ne peut empêchet un enfant d'apprendre sa langue maternelle. Le langage est social. On revient à Bakhtine, Chomsky, Vygotski, Palo Alto, Piaget, Bruner et d'autres.
When you acquire you learn. Acquistion is learning and learning is acquistion.
Acquisition in a natural milieu among the family, the environment, where as
Learning, is diffenent, you learn in an institution, like schools...that is the rules, like grammar, syntax......to develop your linguistic competence.
Dear Idrees Zebari , In the context of teaching a language, I think it is learned because a student learn rules for reading, writing, speaking and listening.
Of course, it is learned. But for me the word "learning" has a wider meaning, than just learning something from the textbook or at school. I mean the general process of learning, which includes also listening and imitating what one hears in the social environment.
Actually it is both depending on several language situations. For example, most phonological skills are taught for accuracy of articulations. However, acquisition is what a child takes first (Crirical Age Hypothesis) and later after fossilazion, learning takes place
Yes to both. Speaking (and listening) is a skill acquired in early childhood. Acquisition means the emergence of a language skill without purposeful or deliberate efforts or training. This can only occur in a socio-linguistic environment where first language(s) emerges. This means there has to be other language users using the language with and not to the child. Acquisition can only occur when the window of language acquisition is open which is from 0 years to just before the onset of puberty. This is the time that the brain plasticity is viable and localization is possible. With onset of puberty the window closes and the individual will not acquire but can learn a few basic terms. Learning simply means being trained to speak. This will help in advancement of the acquired language or learning a new/second language. This will mean learning of how to pronounce sounds, words, stressing, mode, rhythm, etc.
But the hardest skill is speaking. Speaking combines the hard parts of writing and listening: it requires much more in-depth knowledge of the grammar, and it requires you to use this knowledge in real time. Also, you have to get pronunciation right, which adds another layer of complexity to an already complex task.
Also I believe that listening comprehension, not speaking, is the most important skill in language learning. If you can achieve a high level in comprehension, all other skills will follow. The speaking will come. The grammar and correct usage will come.
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Speaking is a skill that can be learned if we are determined to do it. there are various methods but my suggestion is to take BEC Exam
My answer is Yes and No. Yes because we can improve speaking in one way or another if we keep practicing. No because no definition of perfect speaking competence can be defined.
Both. For EAL students, it is okay to say speaking as a macro skill can be acquired with language exposure. While to a large degree, it is learned—learning how to make correct sentence, how to speak appropriately in different situations.
Speaking eloquency is a learned behaviour. But empathic communication is an affective domain skill.
I think it should be both as well. Some people are good at it because they acquire the language from the beginning of their life, but for some people, they can get better at the language when they keep practising and keep improving themselves.
In my opinion, speaking skill ought to be acquired and learned regardless it includes tongue language or second language. The matter concerns concept of speaking itself. Despite all human are native speakers of their own languages, we hear often that some persons have great carisma when they are going to speak. There is no doubt that like those persons acquired and learned all issues of speaking skill which participated in showing talented person in speaking.
You are right. Acquired from thé environnent, learned, in an institution, in class, mastering the suprasegmental features, as speed, thé intensity, the rythme, the accentuation, thé group rythmic...
Speaking is a skill which could be : - learned that is you need the supra segmental features as thé Melody, thé stress, the intonation rising, falling, thé rythme.
- acquired, you need the environment to develop your capacité to speak.
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