PRINCIPLES TO TEACHING SPEAKING SKILLS.

Principles of Teaching Speaking Skills
The teacher has an important role to promote communication in the classroom. So, the teacher should implement the teaching principles that lead to effective teaching. Brown (2007, p. 331)has written that there are seven principles for teaching speaking skills, namely:

1. focus on both fluency and accuracy;
2. provide intrinsically motivating techniques; Analysis of Lesson Plans for Teaching
   Speaking (I. Farida, U. Kasim & A. Manan)
3. encourage the parroting of authentic language;
4. provide appropriate feedback and corrections;
5. capitalize on the natural link between speaking and listening;
6. give students opportunities to initiate oral communication; and
7. encourage the development of speaking strategies.
   Implications to teaching
   Teaching speaking is very important to improve students’ self-confidence in using the
   language. According to Brown (1994, p. 37), teaching-learning speaking should be given high priority for several reasons:
8. It combines several language skills that embrace all components of communicative
   competence.
9. Language learning is highly dependent on speaking and listening