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Team Modern Teachers for New Generations constists of two language teachers, English teacher  from Romania and  French teacher  from Serbia. We are presenting the final version of our resources of developing oral communication skills in foreign language learners.

The main idea is based on how to motivate, manage and engage students to improve their  speaking  skills in the classroom.

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Developing oral communication skills in classroom

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Developing oral communication skills in classroom

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If the goal of a language course is truly to enable the students to communicate in targeted language, then speaking skills should be taught and practised in the language classroom.

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Challenge: to develop speaking while integrating reading, listening and writing skills in a natural way as simulating real life communicative situation 

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Challenge: to develop speaking while integrating reading, listening and writing skills in a natural way as simulating real life communicative situation 

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* Using method of flipped classroom for assignements and lectures
* Using technology and innovative tools for learning and teaching foreign languages
* Using audio exercises where students can record themselves improve their pronunciation and intonation. which are focusing on listening and speaking as basic skills, as a foundation to more complex tasks with reading and writing.

Teaching activities: speeches and presentations

* Team based oral work
* Group therapy
* Debate
* Speaking games and roleplays

Materials

There are three main types of materials used for organising speaking activities:
Ø text-based
Ø task-based
Ø realia

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Practicing communication in foreign language 

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Practicing communication in foreign language 

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students also develop other important knowledge, skills, attitudes and values. Using technology they develop their digital competences. In virtual classroom they are learning to collaborate. With interdisciplinary topics and speaking they foster critical thinking and creativity.

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*Make a video clip instead of a lecture, grammar rules or any other teaching material that would prepare students for practice of speaking in the classroom.
* Create assignments in virtual (Google) classroom where the students can collaborate, practice reading and writing skills.
*Specify how and when technology will be used.  Create learning activities that offer the best of both worlds - online and face to face.

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Teaching speaking skills educators will make use of various technological devices and resources such as World Wide Web, youtube, teaching blogs and teaching sites.
Podcasts, Showme, Testeach with blendspace, Educreations, Nearpod, Learnia, LearningApps, Quizzlet, Kahoot are some of examples of innovative tools for learning and teaching that could be used.

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According to our feedback from students we came up with Final Solutions:
- The students are very motivated and optimistic about the ideas presented. They already have developped certain digital skills necessary for virtual and flipped classrom.
Fro feedback from teachers and pisa4u  colleages important is:
- teacher training
- setting rules very clearly during the activity.

- giving rewards for progress

- to ensure a balanced variety of speaking activities in such a way as to avoid boredom and disinterest

- to provide attractive teaching aids: movies, recordings, ppt 's, podcasts, mindmaps, role cards, maps etc.

- to allow students set their own rules
-to use self evaluation; students assess temselves