Teacher talk: the secrets of comprehensible speech for non-native speakers of English

“Teacher talk: the secrets of comprehensible speech for non-native speakers of English” is a reading published by Pearson Education and written by Pearson Longman on 2006 which gives us advice about what kind of strategies we should use in our classroom to be better communicators.

First of all, for Longman the central theme of the chapter are the skills and tricks that teachers use in their classrooms to achieve a successful communication with their students. He believes that the speech style is essential to obtain a good communication and sometimes we do not have to worry if the teacher is native or non-native because the way of speaking will determine how good a communicator is and this will depend on the strategies you use to get it.

On the one hand, the writer thinks that is important to use some techniques such as body language or facial expression because if we accompany our speech with this kind of strategies, our students will understand us better. On the other hand, teachers should not speak in a monotonous way. Due to this reason, speech has to have lot of intonation and has to be clear with short sentences. Furthermore, the teacher has to use familiar topics and words in order to make speech easier.

To sum up, I am utterly convinced that all these tricks and skills can help us as teachers to be better communicators. In addition, if we know how to call the child attention and we feel secure about what we are teaching and doing, we will enjoy the lesson and will communicate easily with our students. For this reason, we should take into account the aspects mentioned above because these will help students to understand better their teacher.

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