Teaching Productive Speaking Skills with Hand Puppets

Term Paper , 2019 , 29 Pages , Grade: 1,0

Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies

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

1 Introduction

2 Productive Speaking Competence in Inclusive Settings
2.1 Specific Requirements on an Inclusive EFL Classroom
2.2 Speaking Competence in the Curriculum
2.3 Encouraging Productive Speaking Competence in the Inclusive EFL Classroom
2.3.1 Half-open Tasks
2.3.2 Beneficial Language Models
2.3.3 Meaningful Speaking Context
2.3.4 Preparing Spoken Interaction
2.3.5 A Positive Learning Atmosphere

3 Hand Puppetry in Primary School

4 Hand Puppets to Encourage the Productive Speaking Skills in the Inclusive Primary EFL Classroom
4.1 Providing Authenticity and Meaningfulness
4.2 Establishing an Atmosphere that Encourages Speaking
4.3. Evoking Emotional Involvement

5. Use of Hand Puppets in Primary School Books
5.1 Playwayl
5.2 Sunshine Early Start Edition

6 Conclusion

4 Bibliography

Literature

Internet Sources

List of figures

• College: University of Paderborn (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik)
• Grade: 1,0
• Author: Johanna Bergschneider (Author)
• Publication Year: 2019
• Pages: 29
• Catalog Number: V906418
• ISBN (eBook): 9783346220776
• ISBN (Book): 9783346220783
• Language: English
• Tags: Hand Puppets, puppets, Productive Speaking Skills, speaking skills, Inclusive Classroom, Primary school, EFL Classroom, productive speaking competence, authenticity, meaningful speaking, playway, sunshine, elementary school, english as a foreign language, english lesson, teaching english