Tag Archives: oral language

A flip chart can be useful in your ‘speaking and listening corner’.

It can be useful to have a flipchart in your ‘speaking and listening corner’. There are various things you will repeat each day as a teacher or during a particular lesson, and these pointers can be listed on a page in a flipchart ready for access at any time

More group strategies for oral language activities

Some examples of group strategies for oral language activities in the classroom:
1. The Jigsaw Technique
2. Three-Step Interview
3. Think/ Pair/ Share Technique
4. Inside Outside Circles

The Jigsaw technique is a cooperative learning method in which students work in small groups. It was first developed by social psychologist Elliot Aronson and his students at the University of Texas and the University of California in 1971.

Create a rich language-learning environment

The physical environment of a classroom has great power over the quality and the quantity of children’s experiences of oral language (Roskos & Neuman, 2002). Children use print available to them in the classroom and so when creating a rich language environment, be aware that the environment surrounding the pupils meditates the language that they will use.