Stage 3 guidelines for speaking: Grammar

Here is a grammar objective for Stage 3 for speaking:

To use all grammatical constructions easily and accurately enough so you do not disturb native speakers or interfere with communication, even in formal or professional settings

Here are some grammar strategies for Stage 3 guidelines for speaking:

Analysis Determine what types of constructions are most difficult for you to speak with clarity and in normal rate of speech. Practice Work with a language associate (LA) on dialogue or monologues that contain such difficulties. Work until you feel ease--not perfection. Do not hold back--you must talk. Selective attention Focus on one problem at a time. Remember there will be a variable: some days you will do great; some days you will make more mistakes than normal. Comparison Record yourself and then let a mother-tongue speaker evaluate your recording.

Here are some grammar techniques for Stage 3 guidelines for speaking:

The Record for Correction technique

• The Structure Contrast Drill technique
• Ask a native speaker to listen critically to the recording and note grammatical mistakes.

Here are some grammar activities for Stage 3 guidelines for speaking:

Use the language as much as possible in daily life deliberately expose yourself to a wide variety of communication situations, and be aware of new vocabulary you hear. Incorporate new words into your active vocabulary by finding ways to bring them up in conversations.

• The Social Visiting activity

• Generic module: Stage 3 guidelines for speaking: Grammar
• In overview module: Stage 3: Speaking modules
• In modular book: Guidelines for a Language and Culture Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In document collection: Other Resources
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

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