Pre-Viewing Questions
1. Regarding all five language skills – reading, writing, listening, speaking and language mediation – how essential and relevant do you consider teaching speaking in the EFL classroom?
2. What aspects make a good English speaker? Can you rank these aspects with regard to their importance?
3. Can you name three classroom activities that can foster students´ speaking skills and explain how they help students to develop their speaking proficiency?
4. What do you think are the biggest struggles that teachers face when teaching a speaking-based lesson in the EFL classroom?
Post-Viewing Questions
1. Reflect on the holistic statement that being a competent English speaker, who is able to successfully communicate in our globalized world, should be the ultimate goal of every language learning process. Do you agree or disagree?
2. Reviewing the four dimensions of language learning- fluency, accuracy, complexity, and, appropriacy- do you believe that one dimension is more relevant than the other? If yes, why? If no, why not?
3. When you consider the highly complex speaking process and the four mentioned phases, how could you as a teacher pay attention to each phase in your lessons?
4. What is your personal approach to speaking-based games in the EFL classroom? What could some of the benefits of game-based activities be?
5. Name three quality criteria for a successful speaking-based English lesson.