Discussion: Teaching Speaking in Large 
One perennial problem teachers try to solve revolves around strategies that help teach speaking in a large classroom. We will use this discussion forum to share ideas that address this question. 

Directions
Share ideas that address the following question: How do you teach speaking in large classes? In your post, you can outline approaches, assignments, and technologies you have used that seem to work with teaching speaking to larger classes. You can also highlight the importance of creating speaking opportunities for your students, the role speaking holds in your curriculum, the way that your students learn to speak, and how you support them as their teacher. The post should be no longer than 200 words.

The following examples1 are provided to offer guidance. Please use your own words and do not copy and paste from the examples.

Module 7: Task 3 - Discussion Post Example
A post from a former course participant 
Hello all,

With the growing tendency toward developing communicative competence, verbal proficiency or speaking skill is usually regarded as essential skill in language education and it has gained lots of attention from both teachers’ and learners’ side. It is widely said that, today’s world requires that the goal of teaching verbal skill should be focused on improving speaking skill because, in that way, learners can express themselves confidently. Speaking is "the process of building and sharing meaning through the use of verbal and non-verbal symbols. Although I try to combine speaking activities with the technology in class, it sometimes does not work very well. When I try my students to speak in class some students become passive and some become demotivated. Therefore, I reckon that teachers should use various strategies and activities considering students' level and skills.One of the strategies that I use in my class is Think-Pair-Share and Silent Pedagogy in productive way in large class. A close reading of the book “Understanding Silence and Reticence” by Dat Bao, it contributes to my knowledge a lot in order to understand, reflect and think back to my class. To cite an instance, in my class, students are different to develop their language skills: some students learn successfully through using language verbally while other students learn language though observing, reflecting and thinking. Being able to monitor talk and silence respectively for good purpose can be a base of developing oral skill. I use different types of activities such as picture description, finding differences, picture narration, storytelling, simulations, interviews,reporting and so on

Best, Sare
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