Book review: How to Teach Speaking by Scott Thornburry

HOW TO TEACH SPEAKING

 

Written by : Scott Thornburry

Series Editor : Jeremy Harmer

Year : 2005

City : London

Publisher : Pearson Longman

Country : England

What Is the Book About?

This book is about looking at speaking learning with easy way and understandable perspective : what is it that good teachers can do? And what is it that good teachers  know?

Who is this book for?

It has been designed for all teachers who wish to improve their knowledge and develop their classroom skills in speaking aspect.

The Purposes:

1. To help the students (with teachers illustrasion) to become fluency.
2. As a good guidance for teacher to teach in speaking area.
3. Emphasize the teachers to be more critically and are able to face and understanding their each students` ability, well.
4. This book is to convey information and facilitate the interpersonal function.

Content:

1. What speakers do
2. What speakers know
3. Speaking in another language
4. Awareness-raising activities
5. Appropriation activities
6. Towards autonomy
7. Planning and assessing speaking

Evaluation:

• The Strength

Simple, Easy to follow, and unserstandable.

The analysis is clear and accessible without being simplistic and be of particular use to pre-service teachers.

• The Weakness

Weakness is lack of practical activities for the classroom (there are some but more is much better.

Intrepretation:

This book is an excellent overview of key concept in thie field , as well a grat source for ideas to help teachers put these concepts into actions. This book is also compact, so even a busy teacher can use it, or even read it prat per part.

Moreover, it is able to change the students paradigm, mental and phsycological proccess that English is hard so, it can be implicated in speaking area.

Summary:

Accordingly, in chapter 1 and 2 we start by looking at what skill spakers can do before looking at what they know. Chapter 3 addresses the problems faced by speakers of another language and maps out the number of priorities of teaching speaking. Chapter 4,5,6  deal with three passages of a general approach to skil development : awareness, rising, appropriation, and autonomy. Chapter 7 are able to look at ways that speaking can be integrated into the language curriculum.

Baca Juga:

1. Noun Phrases A set of comprehensive facts and some theoretical tendencies by Dr. Jumanto
2. Mastering American English by Grant Taylor
3. Speaking Naturally "Communication Skills in American English" by Bruce Tillitt, Mary Newton Bruder
4. LET’S COMMUNICATE IN ENGLISH (A Speaking Course for Intermediate Level) Written by: Prof. Dra. Kasihani K.E. Suyanto, M.A.,Ph.D and Dra. Sri Rachmajanti, Di. TESL, M.Pd
5. “TECHNIQUES AND PRINCIPLES IN LANGUAGE TEACHING (SECOND EDITION)” By DIANE LARSEN-FREEMAN