Interaction Matters- Interactive Activities

using Interactive Activities to Promote Students' Speaking Skills

By Janpha Thadphoothon

Naturally, the more you interact with other people, the better your oral skills will be. Face-to-face  interaction can be done in a variety of ways: role playing, Qs and As, Drama activities, and maybe interaction with chat bots.

In practice, asking students to work in groups would allow them to interact more and consequently practice more.




"The Interaction hypothesis is a theory of second-language acquisition which states that the development of language proficiency is promoted by face-to-face interaction and communication. "



Sources: 
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_hypothesis

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 Long, Michael (1985). "Input and Second Language Acquisition Theory". In Gass, Susan; Madden, Carolyn (eds.). Input in second language acquisition. Rowley, Mass: Newbury House. pp. 377–393. ISBN 978-0-88377-284-3.

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Long, Michael (1996). "The role of the linguistic environment in second language acquisition". In Ritchie, William; Bhatia, Tej (eds.). Handbook of second language acquisition. San Diego: Academic Press. pp. 413–468. ISBN 978-0-12-589042-7.