How To Article (Time To Talk)

Welcome back to my blog,this is my 3^rd post. Here I want to make a summarize of my latest post titled Time To Talk using technique by my Lecturer Ratu Sarah. In making the summarize you have to understand the article or text you read, then you have to know what the title of the text you read, how many pages, what is the topic of the text,the detail (explanation), the purpose of the writer, quotation, and your opinion about the text you read. Ok this is the scope of my latest post.

Using “Talk Partner” strategy is an easy and practical way to build children’s confidence and encourage them to talk in English. This strategy gives children more thinking time and allows them to try out language and test ideas in a familiar and safe environment. As a result, they are more willing to take risks with their language, answer more open-ended questions and produce more extended responses. This strategy is needs to be carefully planned,  include setting up the strategy, developing the children’s communication skills and carefully selecting and building up Talk Partner tasks.

Setting Up Talk Partners

Here, u have to explain and demonstrate what young learners have to do. You can use matching cards, pull children’s names out of a bag or use one of the many random group generator apps that are available on phones and computers.

Developing communication skills

Communication is a two-way process and learners need to learn how to actively listen to their partner and talk meaningfully about the task. It’s a good idea, therefore, to establish some ground rules for being a good Talk Partner.

Building up Talk Partner tasks

A good way to start is to use Talk Partners to practise short question and answer exchanges in pairs, for example Do you like …? Have you got …? What’s your favourite….?Once the children are confident doing this, you can ask them to find out and record similarities. For example, in the following activity, children need to find out and record five things they both did at the weekend. Talk is supported through language prompts and children record the five activities on their hand print.

Open ended questions can be used with more competent language learners and the cooperative learning strategy think-pair-share provides children with the extra thinking time they need to answer these questions. In this strategy, the children think independently about the question before discussing their ideas with their Talk Partner. Then the pairs share their ideas with the whole group. Possible tasks include asking learners to discuss what they know about a topic, make a prediction or give and justify an opinion. In the following pre-listening task, the learners look at a photo of children acting out a play and discuss the questions: Who are the characters? What do you think the characters are talking about? After sharing their ideas with a partner and then the whole class, they listen to the first act of a short EFL play to find out.

Purpose of the writer ; To develop speaking skill of young learners using “Talk Partner” technique/strategy.

Quotation ; Talk Partners tasks are also enjoyable and help develop a more caring and cooperative classroom environment where everyone has a voice. So, what are you waiting for? It’s time to talk!

Opinion ; This article is very usefull to us to help young learners in developing their communication skills using “Talk Partner” strategy.