The Speaking Classroom
Speaking time improves when the task contains a genuine gap, a visible outcome, and language support that learners can reach without interrupting every sentence. Noise is not automatically learning, but silence is a suspiciously poor speaking activity. These activities specify what each learner knows, what each learner needs, and how the teacher can monitor without becoming a third person in every pair.
ESL Speaking Activities: Choose the Right Task
Choose ESL speaking activities by the communication you want to hear: exchanging missing facts, handling a situation, exploring opinions, or reaching a…
Information Gap Activities: 5 Classroom-Ready Ideas
Information gap activities give learners different, task-essential information and a shared outcome they can reach only by communicating.
Information Gap Principle: Who Knows What?
The information gap principle gives learners a reason to communicate: someone needs information that another person holds.