Objectives of the Research Significance of the Research
5 Skills in taking short and long speaking turns.
6 Skills in the management of interaction.
7 Skills in negotiating meaning.
8 Conversational listening skills successful conversations require good
listeners as well as good speakers. 9
Skills in knowing about and negotiating purposes for conversations. 10
Using appropriate conversational formulae and fillers. According to Hornby 1995:826, speaking is making use of words in an
ordinary voice, offering words, knowing and being able to use a language expressing one-self in words, and making speech. Therefore the writer infers
that speaking uses the word and produces the sound to express ourselves either ideas, feeling, thought and needs orally in an ordinary voice. Furthermore,
success in communication is often dependent as much on the listener as on the speaker.
According to Harmer 2001, when discussing the elements of speaking that are necessary for fluent oral production, distinguishes between two aspects
– knowledge of ‘language features’, and the ability to process information on the spot, it means ‘mentalsocial processing’.
The first aspect, language features, necessary for spoken production according to Harmer 2001, 269-270 are presented below.
1 Connected speech – conveying fluent connected speech including
assimilation, elision, linking ‘r’, contractions and stress patterning –
weakened sounds;
2 Expressive devices – pitch, stress, speed, volume, physical – non-verbal
means for conveying meanings supersegmental features; 3
Lexis and grammar – supplying common lexical phrases for different functions agreeing, disagreeing, expressing shock, surprise, approval, etc.;
4 Negotiation language – in order to seek clarification and to show the
structure of what we are saying.