Speaking

Microskills for Speaking (Brown, 2003:272)

1.      Produce chunks of language of different lengths.

2.      Orally produce differences among the English phonemes and allophonic variants.

3.      Produce English stress patterns, words in stressed and unstressed positions, rhythmic structure, and intonational contours.

4.      Produce reduced forms of words and phrases.

5.      Use an adequate number of lexical units (words) in order to accomplish pragmatic purposes.

6.      Produce fluent speech at different rates of delivery.

7.      Monitor your own oral production and use various strategic devices-pauses, fillers, self-corrections, backtracking-to enhance the clarity of the message.

8.      Use grammatical word classes (noun, verb, etc), system (e.g., tense, agreement, pluralization), word order, patterns, rules, and elliptical forms. 

9. Produce speech in natural constituents-in appropriate phrases, pause groups, breath groups, and sentences.