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Micro and Macro skills and activities - Coggle Diagram
Micro and Macro skills and activities
There are 3 groups of skills, for the process of developing and assesing students speaking ability
Global
Macro
Micro
There are
5 global
, aproximately
22 macro
, and
many more micro skills
MICRO SKILLS
Chunks of language
Orally produce differences among the English phonemes/ allophonic variants
Words in stressed and unstressed positions, rhythmic structure and intonational contours
Produce reduced forms of words and phrases
Adequate number of lexical units
Monitor your own oral production and use various strategic devices
Produce fluent speech at different rates of delivery
Use grammatical words classes, systems, word order, patterns and rules.
Express particular meaning in different grammatical forms
MACRO SKILLS
Use cohesive devices in spoken discourse
Communicative functions approprietly to situations, participants and goals
Use appropriate registers, implicature, pragmatic convetions and sociolinguistic feature in face-to-face conversations
Convey links and connections between events and communicate such relations as main idea
Use facial features, kinesic, body language and other nonverbal.
Develop and use a battery of speaking strategies, such as emphasizing key words
Developing micro skills:
The micro skills can be worked out independenty or simultaneously in different situations
Monologue: Students are asked to present/read in front of the class (for this, they should use exclamations, interjections)
Communicative micro situations
Students should come up with a short dialogue on a particular topic, on which they will have to both ask and answer questions and make, and respond to each others' remarks in a natural way
Role-play
: In this case, student A should give a particular piece of information to student B, whose task is to ask as many unrelated questions as possible to try side track student A
Prompts
: Depending on the students language profiency various prompts might be used for these tasks. The simplest one both for a teacher and students includes what and how questions on familiar topics