How might the use of hand puppets in primary school affect the productive speaking skills of young learners in an inclusive learning environment?
The great potential of acquiring English productive speaking skills frequently remains untapped in English lessons in primary school. What can teacher do to use the outlined learning potentials in terms of the productive speaking skills? Most English primary school books include hand puppets in their concepts and introduce teaching suggestions such as hand puppets as dialogue partners, hand puppet-based games or role plays.
This leads to the idea that hand puppets might provide an authentic and meaningful speaking context that promotes productive speaking. The promotion of the speaking skills of young learners is a highly individualized process that needs to be adjusted to the individual development of every single child. Consequently, when providing appropriate occasions for children to talk, teachers need to take the heterogeneity of their student body into consideration, which can be challenging sometimes.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Productive Speaking Competence in Inclusive Settings
- Specific Requirements on an Inclusive EFL Classroom.
- Speaking Competence in the Curriculum...
- Encouraging Productive Speaking Competence in the Inclusive EFL Classroom...
- Half-open Tasks.
- Beneficial Language Models.
- Meaningful Speaking Context..
- Preparing Spoken Interaction.
- A Positive Learning Atmosphere...........
- Hand Puppetry in Primary School .......
- Hand Puppets to Encourage the Productive Speaking Skills in the Inclusive Primary
EFL Classroom
- Providing Authenticity and Meaningfulness
- Establishing an Atmosphere that Encourages Speaking ...
- Evoking Emotional Involvement.
- Use of Hand Puppets in Primary School Books.
- Playway 1 ...
- Sunshine Early Start Edition
- Conclusion.............
Objectives and Key Themes
The aim of this paper is to investigate the potential of using hand puppets to encourage the productive speaking skills of young learners in an inclusive primary school setting. This research focuses on the importance of providing meaningful and authentic contexts for language learning, considering the heterogeneity of learners in inclusive classrooms. It aims to demonstrate how hand puppets can serve as a valuable tool for facilitating interaction and fostering the development of speaking skills.
- The role of productive speaking competence in inclusive EFL classrooms
- The use of hand puppets as a means of promoting authentic and meaningful speaking contexts
- The impact of hand puppets on emotional involvement and motivation in the learning process
- The integration of hand puppets in existing teaching materials and practices
- The potential of hand puppets to address the heterogeneity of learners in inclusive settings
Chapter Summaries
The introduction highlights the need for a stronger focus on productive speaking skills in German primary school English lessons. It discusses the gap between listening comprehension and speaking proficiency observed in empirical studies. This paper investigates the potential of hand puppets as a tool to bridge this gap by providing an engaging and meaningful context for language production.
Chapter 2 delves into the concept of productive speaking competence in inclusive settings, focusing on the specific requirements of inclusive EFL classrooms. It examines the importance of providing opportunities for learners to participate in authentic and meaningful communication, taking into consideration the diverse needs of learners in inclusive environments.
Chapter 3 explores the use of hand puppetry in primary school, outlining the benefits and considerations associated with this method. It discusses how hand puppets can create a playful and interactive environment that encourages participation and motivates learners to engage with language.
Chapter 4 investigates the potential of hand puppets to encourage productive speaking skills in inclusive primary school lessons. It examines how hand puppets can provide a platform for authentic and meaningful interaction, enhancing motivation and fostering the development of speaking skills.
Chapter 5 investigates the use of hand puppets in two popular primary school books, "Playway 1" and "Sunshine Early Start Edition," to evaluate their potential for supporting language learning. It analyzes how these materials integrate hand puppets into their teaching methodologies and explores the intended use of puppets within the respective teaching approaches.
Keywords
The core themes and concepts of this paper include inclusive education, productive speaking skills, EFL teaching methodologies, hand puppets, primary school curriculum, authentic language learning, meaningful contexts, learner heterogeneity, emotional involvement, and teaching materials. These key areas are explored through a lens of best practices for creating inclusive and engaging language learning environments.
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- Johanna Bergschneider (Autor:in), 2019, Teaching Productive Speaking Skills with Hand Puppets, München, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/906418
