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Speaking & Listening Skills, , What is speaking and listening, and how will your children develop these skills in the, classroom? To find out more about speaking and listening skills, development and, stages, you can browse this handy Twink! teaching guide. We have included, everything you need including clear tips, tricks and information. For more support,, you can also take a look at our teaching resources and classroom aids to help, parents and teachers support speaking and listening development with their children., , What is speaking and listening?, , Speaking and listening are an important set of literacy skills that will create the, foundation to a lot of your children's further learning.Listening requires the, fundamental skill of focusing attention on the speaker to be able to hear and, understand what the speaker is saying. Speaking skills require students to take, turns, speak confidently, stay on topic, and speak with clarity., , What are speaking and listening skills?, , Speaking and listening skills are the behaviours and actions that we use in the, classroom to communicate effectively and considerately. Check out a few of these, examples of speaking and listening skills., , Listening:, , Looking at the speaker while they are talking., , Make appropriate gestures and movements to acknowledge what the speaker is, saying. For example, nodding and making appropriate comments., , Raising your hand before speaking to ask a question., Speaking:, Using ‘inside voices' and speaking at an appropriate volume for the situation., , Being able to ask related and appropriate questions., , Listening and Speaking Skills, Listening and speaking skills are vital language skills to develop when learning English, or any other language., , By having strong listening skills, you will be able to understand everything that is, happening around you., , By having good speaking skills you will be able to say everything you want without any, problem. This will open up the world of communication both professionally and socially.

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Improving your listening and speaking skills, , Listening and speaking are two of the four language skills. The other two language skills, are reading and writing., , Some people find they can speak well but can’t understand when someone speaks back, to them. Others find that listening to others feels easier than creating their own, , sentences in English., , Read on to learn more about speaking and listening in English and how to improve both, skills and have easier conversations with native English speakers., , English listening skills, , Listening skills are passive language skills, that is, they are used to understand another, other person’s production of language (their speech)., , Native English speakers can seem to talk very quickly to a non-native English person., The spaces between words are not visible like they are in written text, so, , the sounds jumble up together to form one long incoherent sentence., , It takes a while of patient listening practice before a non-native English speaker can, discern between different sounds which make up individual words. This helps the, non-native speaker to hear where one word ends and another begins., , The spaces between words are often not audible, so you need to know what to listen for, in order to separate the sounds of speech. This comes with practice., , English speaking skills, , Speaking is an active skill in language learning. English speaking skills are often the, hardest to develop out of all the language skills. This is often simply because learners do, not always have much opportunity to speak English, unless they are already living in an, English-speaking country., , Speaking a new language can be especially difficult if the sounds in the English, language are not the same as in your native language., , Some languages never use certain sounds that are regularly found in English, such as, the ‘r sound, the ‘v’ sound or the ‘th’ sound.