THE ROLE OF COMMUNICATIVE EFFICIENCY IN TEACHING SPEAKING

Abstract

Speaking is a crucial part of second language learning and teaching. Despite its importance, for many years, teaching speaking has been undervalued and English language teachers have continued to teach speaking just as a repetition of drills or memorization of dialogues. However, today's world requires that the goal of teaching speaking should improve students' communicative skills, because, only in that way, students can express themselves and learn how to follow the social and cultural rules appropriate in each communicative circumstance. What is meant by teaching speaking Kayi said that to teach English languagelearners to produce the English speech sounds and sounds patterns. In the same time to usewords and sentence stress, intonation patterns and the rhythm of the second language. Andto select appropriate words and sentence according to the proper social setting, audience,situation and subject matter. In addition, teaching speaking is to organize their thoughts in ameaningful and logical sequence. Teaching speaking means to use language as a means ofexpressing values and judgments and teaching speaking to use the language quickly andconfidently with few unnatural pauses, which is called fluency.