How Do You Develop Oral Accuracy and Fluency? Evaluating the Challenges in a Time-Constrained English Language Classroom.

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How do you develop oral accuracy and fluency? Evaluating the challenges in a time-constrained English language classroom. How do you develop oral accuracy and fluency? Evaluating the challenges in a time-constrained English Language classroom. Individual students learn in different ways and have differing opinions as what and how they should learn during an English language classroom. These opinions are formed through their own personal experiences, knowledge, and exposure to learning. Within the English classroom setting, some would prefer to concentrate on the aspects of language construction whereas the others on the actual usage of the language. In the English adult classes that I have taught, the majority of the students prefer to concentrate on their language proficiency rather than the accuracy. This is not to say that they do not appreciate the fundamentals of the language. In their own way, they are trying to prioritise one aspect over the other. Or it could be as a result of what they are more comfortable with or more interested in. Classrooms lessons are built around either non-communicative activities where grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, and language structure are taught, or the communicative activities. The communicative activities are focused on target language fluency through practice. Finding the right balance between communicative and non-communicative activities can affect the motivation of the students. Not all students would want to continuously tackle grammar and vocabulary, whereas some will feel confident dealing with language construction and structures, but will fall apart when it comes to the usage of the language. It is this balance of assisting the students to develop their English language knowledge supplemented with English language practice through raising their motivation levels that can prove to be a conundrum. Yuru

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