Teaching Speaking with Technology?

3^rd Journal of TLL Course

I still do believe that technology is essentially just the package of strategy in teaching. Technology can be very useful in encouraging students’ motivation to learn. Most research has proven that motivation and willingness to learn is something that is very important to enhance the effectiveness of the learning process. Technology is not the main part, and that is what teachers should believe.

In speaking skill, for some people, is already interesting without the hand of technology. Especially for those who have “interpersonal intelligence”, they will be very enthusiastic to learn this. But we as the teacher should consider their ability or their proficiency level of English speaking skill. Lower level student tends to be more silent. In this case, technology will be very helpful.

When I was a student, the exposure of speaking skill is so much less than enough. Actually there are so many ways in making speaking skill interesting but some teachers did not notice that. The use of headset in the language lab actually will be interesting. But then it was become less interesting because teachers did not know how to use it and how to make it interesting. They did not know how to correlate technology and pedagogy.

Speaking skill will be a very useful for students. For me, this skill is the most important skill to be learnt. This is the essence of learning English.

Hopefully, I will be a teacher that could correlate technology and pedagogy in order to enhance students’ speaking fluency.