Welcome to 'TeachingEnglish: How to teach speaking'
How will the course help you?
Develop your understanding of speaking skills and explore teaching techniques and activities which promote oral communication in the classroom for a range of ages and levels.
What does the course include?
How to teach speaking is a free self-study training course, which is divided into three hour modules. It also includes:
- A dedicated Facebook community of course participants with up-to-date insight, resources and innovative ideas for you to try out.
- Engaging discussions taking place in the Facebook community
- A free workbook with extra learning content and resources.
What will you learn?
- Module 1: Understanding speaking – key terms and issues
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The aim of this module is to explore key terms and issues in the teaching of speaking. You'll look at how to evaluate and modify activities in terms of communicative quality, and consider how to get your learners using 'real speaking', not just completing grammar tasks.
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- recognise issues related to accuracy and fluency in speaking practice
- distinguish between oral activities which practise grammar and oral activities which are communicative
- evaluate a range of speaking activities
- modify activities to make them more effective in developing oral communication skills. - Module 2: Understanding speaking – maximising interaction
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The aim of this module is to introduce you to a range of techniques and activities which promote speaking in your classroom. You'll look at the benefits of pair and group work and adapt tasks to maximise student interaction.
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- distinguish between oral activities which practise grammar and oral activities which are communicative
- adapt reading tasks to make them more communicative. - Module 3: Understanding language practice activities
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The aim of this module is to explore and evaluate a range of practice activities. The module also looks at flexible activities that can be adapted for different ages and levels. You have the opportunity to select appropriate activities which match with lesson aims, and justify your choices.
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- identify the skills and language that different activities practise and address some common concerns about practice activities
- use songs, stories and mobile phones in a variety of ways for classroom language practice
- choose language practice activities which correspond to your lesson aims and learners' needs.
When is the course?
Enrolment for 'TeachingEnglish: How to teach speaking' is now closed. Sign up to the free newsletter to keep up to date on when our courses open.
How much does the course cost?
The course is free.
How can you get a certificate?
You will receive a certificate if you successfully complete all self-study modules.
What level of English do you need?
Minimum CEFR B1
What can you do now?
If you're interested in learning more about teaching speaking, you can:
- Get teaching ideas from our Courses for teachers Facebook community.
- Access learning content related to our courses on Facebook (Facebook account required).
- Access teaching resources on the TeachingEnglish website
- Download the free course workbook.
Comments
Starting a course
Hi Akhtar,
Firstly 'Welcome to the site' and let's hope you can be online learning with us soon! I'm sorry that you haven't been able to find the menu 'My Portfolio' where you'll be able to see any courses that are currently active. If you are logged into TeachingEnglish ( this means you may have to create a free account?), you'll see above your personal details a menu bar? (If you're on a mobile you can click the three lines to open the Menu). Do you see a Menu option My portfolio? If you do, click My courses and you should see the course.
Let us know if you can see and start the course :)
Anne
TeachingEnglish team
4-week course
Hello everyone, Just I need to ask you about the course items, where I can find Today's course topics sorry for that, this is the first time here for me
Thank you alot
Course dates
Hi Malak, and welcome!
We don't have a confirmed start date for a new run of Teaching pathways: How to teach Speaking. New dates will be published on the main page when they are programmed. Any course that is currently available will show up on your account, on and after the day it starts.
The next course we are running is Teaching Pathways: online skills for 21st century teachers https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-online-skills-21st-century-teachers which started on the 19th of July if you are interested in those skills.
Best regards,
Anne
Acquire skills
I wish to join the skill acquisition lecture to help argument my knowledge on certain skills. I like to join .
Thanks
Course dates
Hi mrlooksal,
We don't have a confirmed start date for a new run of Teaching pathways: How to teach Speaking. New dates will be published on the main page when they are programmed. Any course that is currently available will show up on your account, on and after the day it starts.
The next active course starts on the 30th August : Teaching pathways: How to teach grammar. The details are here if you are interested in that course.. https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-how-teach-grammar
Anne
TeachingEnglish team
Enrolling on the speaking course
I am interested on the speaking course, who knows when will it start?
Course dates
Hi,
We don't have a confirmed start date for a new run of Teaching pathways: How to teach Speaking. New dates will be published on the main page when they are programmed. Any course that is currently available will show up on your account, on and after the day it starts.
The next course we are running is Teaching Pathways: online skills for 21st century teachers https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-online-skills-21st-century-teachers starting on the 19th of July if you are interested in those skills.
Best regards,
Anne
unable to enroll
Please I am interested in doing this course. Can you enrol me?
Course dates
Hi,
We don't have a confirmed start date for a new run of Teaching pathways: How to teach Speaking. New dates will be published on the main page when they are programmed. Any course that is currently available will show up on your account, on and after the day it starts.
The next course we are running is Teaching Pathways: online skills for 21st century teachers https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-online-skills-21st-century-teachers starting on the 19th of July if you are interested in those skills.
Best regards,
Anne
How to catch the course tomorrow
Hello,
Actually I'm interesting to join this course hopefully to feedback alot of benefits on me. But I'd like to know how to attend this course.
My best
Course dates
Hi,
We don't have a confirmed start date for a new run of Teaching pathways: How to teach Speaking. New dates will be published on the main page when they are programmed. Any course that is currently available will show up on your account, on and after the day it starts.
The next course we are running is Teaching Pathways: online skills for 21st century teachers https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-online-skills-21st-century-teachers starting today on the 19th of July if you are interested in those skills.
Best regards,
Anne
Course dates
Hi,
We don't have a confirmed start date for a new run of Teaching pathways: How to teach Speaking. New dates will be published on the main page when they are programmed. Any course that is currently available will show up on your account, on and after the day it starts.
The next course we are running is Teaching Pathways: online skills for 21st century teachers https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-online-skills-21st-century-teachers starting on 19th of July if you are interested in those skills.
Best regards,
Anne
Course dates
Hi,
We don't have a confirmed start date for a new run of Teaching pathways: How to teach Speaking. New dates will be published on the main page when they are programmed. Any course that is currently available will show up on your account, on and after the day it starts.
The next course we are running is Teaching Pathways: online skills for 21st century teachers https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-online-skills-21st-century-teachers starting on 19th of July if you are interested in those skills.
Best regards,
Anne
Kindly advise me to enroll…
Kindly advise me to enroll the course
Course dates
Hi,
We don't have a confirmed start date for a new run of Teaching pathways: How to teach Speaking. New dates will be published on the main page when they are programmed. Any course that is currently available will show up on your account, on and after the day it starts.
The next course we are running is Teaching Pathways: online skills for 21st century teachers https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-online-skills-21st-century-teachers starting on 19th of July if you are interested in those skills.
Best regards,
Anne
Course dates
Hi Rabia,
We don't have a confirmed start date for a new run of Teaching pathways: How to teach Speaking. New dates will be published on the main page when they are programmed. Any course that is currently available will show up on your account, on and after the day it starts.
The next course we are running is Teaching Pathways: online skills for 21st century teachers https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-online-skills-21st-century-teachers starting on 19th of July if you are interested in those skills.
Best regards,
Anne
Course for Teaching speaking
Am I too late to enter for this course? I am a volunteer English teacher with IELTS as well as TEFL but find that even with huge knowledge and excellent skills it is not always that easy teaching and I need to find a simpler way and make things a bit easier for my younger students. I teach remotely to students in Vietnam who cannot afford the high costs of English classes.
Course dates
Hi Lynn,
We don't have a confirmed start date for a new run of Teaching pathways: How to teach Speaking. New dates will be published on the main page when they are programmed. Any course that is currently available will show up on your account, on and after the day it starts.
The next course we are running is Teaching Pathways: online skills for 21st century teachers https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-online-skills-21st-century-teachers starting on 19th of July if you are interested in those skills.
Since you are teaching online and mention younger students, you might find this British Council course on Future Learn useful, our British Council facilitators help create a group atmosphere and you'll meet and interact with people from all over the world.
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/teaching-young-learners-online
Best regards,
Anne
How to enrolled in course?
I want to enrol on the training course in Speaking., how to do that?
Course dates
Hi Moomal,
Thank you for your interest in the course, unfortunately we don't have a confirmed start date for a new run of Teaching pathways: How to teach Speaking. New dates will be published on the main page when they are programmed. Any course that is currently available will show up on your account, on and after the day it starts.
The next course we are running is Teaching Pathways: online skills for 21st century teachers https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-online-skills-21st-century-teachers starting on 19th of July if you are interested in those skills.
Best regards,
Anne
TeachingEnglish Team
Course dates
Hi Anouxay,
Thank you for your interest in the course, unfortunately we don't have a confirmed start date for a new run of Teaching pathways: How to teach Speaking. New dates will be published on the main page when they are programmed. Any course that is currently available will show up on your account, on and after the day it starts.
The next course we are running is Teaching Pathways: online skills for 21st century teachers https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-online-skills-21st-century-teachers starting on 19th of July if you are interested in those skills.
Best regards,
Anne
TeachingEnglish Team
Get myself enroll in this course.
I want to enroll myself in this course. As I am a teacher and speaking is considered the most important skill so I would like to learn new technics to teach this skill. Thank you!
Course dates
Hi Faisal,
Thank you for your interest in the course, and yes, I agree that speaking is very important for language learning! Unfortunately we don't have a confirmed start date for a new run of Teaching pathways: How to teach Speaking. New dates will be published on the main page when they are programmed. Any course that is currently available will show up on your account, on and after the day it starts.
The next course we are running is Teaching Pathways: online skills for 21st century teachers https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-online-skills-21st-century-teachers starting on 19th of July if you are interested in those skills.
Best regards,
Anne
TeachingEnglish Team
Enrollment in training
I am new and registered recently. I want to enroll in the above training. Can you please guide me.
Thanks
Welcome and course dates
Welcome to the site! Unfortunately we don't have a confirmed start date for a new run of Teaching pathways: How to teach Speaking. New dates will be published on the main page when they are programmed. Any course that is currently available will show up on your account, on and after the day it starts.
The next course we are running is Teaching Pathways: online skills for 21st century teachers https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-online-skills-21st-century-teachers starting on 19th of July if you are interested in those skills.
Best regards,
Anne
TeachingEnglish Team
How to enroll?
How can I enroll in this class? I created my account couple days ago but I still cannot see the link to sign up the class
Course dates
Hi
We don't have a confirmed start date for a new run of Teaching pathways: How to teach Speaking. New dates will be published on the main page when they are programmed. Any course that is currently available will show up on your account, on and after the day it starts. The next course we are running is Teaching Pathways: online skills for 21st century teachers https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-online-skills-21st-century-teachers starting on 19th of July if you are interested in those skills.
Anne
TeachingEnglish Team
How to enroll
Dear Sir/ Madam,
Kindly advise me how to enroll for this course. Thanks!
Course dates
Hi
We don't have a confirmed start date for a new run of Teaching pathways: How to teach Speaking. New dates will be published on the main page when they are programmed. The next course we are running is Teaching Pathways: online skills for 21st century teachers https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-online-skills-21st-century-teachers starting on 19th of July if you are interested in those skills.
Anne
TeachingEnglish Team
I'm interested to learn…
I'm interested to learn somthing new about how to teach speaking
Teaching speaking
Hi Enas,
If you look under 'Teaching resources' on our main site, the resources are grouped under age group so you can choose whoch age group you are interested in then search for speaking guidance and activities,
Anne
TeachingEnglish team
Teaching Pathways: How to teach speaking
I’m interested in this course
Course dates
Hi We don't have a confirmed start date for a new run of Teaching pathways: How to teach Speaking. New dates will be published on the main page when they are programmed. The next course we are running is Teaching Pathways: online skills for 21st century teachers https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-online-skills-21st-century-teachers.
Anne
TeachingEnglish Team
How to teach speaking course
Hi
Could you advise when this will run again and how many hours it would be.
Thanks
Course dates
Hi sbrooke,
We don't have a confirmed start date for a new run of Teaching pathways: How to teach Speaking. New dates will be published on the main page when they are programmed. If you are interested in it, the next course we are running is Teaching Pathways: online skills for 21st century teachers https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-online-skills-21st-century-teachers
Anne
TeachingEnglish team
Course unavailable
I want to enroll in this course but it is not included in the "Explore courses" page. Can I get some help regarding this matter? Thank you.
Looking forward to this great course
Hello, teachers!
I recently completed a Tesol course and would like to participate in this training course to improve my teaching abilities. Please keep me informed about the start of this course. Thank you very much!
Course dates
Hi mrtanedu,
We don't have a confirmed start date for a new run of Teaching pathways: How to teach Speaking. New dates will be published on the main page when they are programmed. The next course we are running is Teaching Pathways: online skills for 21st century teachers https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-online-skills-21st-century-teachers
Anne
TeachingEnglish team
How to teach speaking
I woud like to learn more about
teaching speaking. This course is interesting for me.
Teaching Speaking course
Hi, We recommend that you sign up for our regular teacher newsletter, which goes out every two weeks. Information about upcoming courses and other events will be included in the newsletter. You can register for the free newsletter here: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/subscribe-our-newsletter
Thanks
Paul (TeachingEnglish team)
Interested
I am interested. Kindly inotify me when the course starts. Thanks.
Hi,
If you are logged into TeachingEnglish ( this means you may have to create a free account?), you'll see above your personal details a menu bar? (If you're on a mobile you can click the three lines to open the Menu). Do you see a Menu option My portfolio? If you do, click My courses and you should see the courses which are live. The Speaking course is not currently running. The course you will see soon if 'How to teach grammar' from 30th August.
Anne
TeachingEnglish team