Speaking Sample Clauses

Speaking. Group members will speak at will; however, the facilitators may require that group members be recognized by the facilitator before speaking. Group members will try not to interrupt each other.

Speaking. Speaking 0 (No Proficiency) Unable to function in the spoken language. Oral production is limited to occasional isolated words. Has essentially no communicative ability. Speaking 5 (Functionally Native Proficiency) Speaking proficiency is functionally equivalent to that of a highly articulate well-educated native speaker and reflects the cultural standards of the country where the language is natively spoken. The individual uses the language with complete flexibility and intuition, so that speech on all levels is fully accepted by well-educated native speakers in all of its features, including breadth of vocabulary and idiom, colloquialisms and pertinent cultural references. Pronunciation is typically consistent with that of well-educated native speakers of a non-stigmatized dialect. Appendix C

Speaking. Courteous and effective communicating with coworkers, providers, residents, family members, visitors, and ancillary departments.

Speaking. Listening

Speaking. Able to communicate in everyday social and routine workplace situations. In these situations the speaker can describe people, places, and things; narrate current, past, and future activities in complete, but simple paragraphs; state facts; compare and contrast; give straightforward instructions and directions; ask and answer predictable questions. Can confidently handle most normal, casual conversations on concrete topics such as job procedures, family, personal background and interests, travel, current events. Can often elaborate in common daily communicative situations, such as personal and accommodation-related interactions; for example, can give complicated, detailed, and extensive directions and make non-routine changes in travel and other arrangements. Can interact with native speakers not used to speaking with non-natives, although natives may have to adjust to some limitations. Can combine and link sentences into paragraph-length discourse. Simple structures and basic grammatical relations are typically controlled, while more complex structures are used inaccurately or avoided. Vocabulary use is appropriate for high-frequency utterances but unusual or imprecise at other times. Errors in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar may sometimes distort meaning. However, the individual generally speaks in a way that is appropriate to the situation, although command of the spoken language is not always firm.

Speaking. Practice this dialogue with a partner.

Speaking. Speaking is a means of communication in expressing ideas, information and feeling to others. It is the most essential way in which the speaker can express himself through a language. ▇▇▇▇▇ (2007,p.257) states that speaking is literally defined as to saythings, express thought aloud, and uses the voice. Spoken language and speaking aresimilar in meaning that how people use the voice loudly that occurs in time cannot go back and change, and it is produced and processed on line. According ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ “The Practice of English Language Teaching” (p.343) speaking is will have able to speak in a range of different genres and situations, and they will have to be able to use a range of conversational and conversational repair strategies, and will need to be able to survive in typical functional exchanges too. According to ▇▇▇▇▇ (1995,p.826) speaking is making use of words in an ordinary voice, uttering words, knowing and being able to use a language; expressing one-self in words; making speech. While skill is the ability to do something well. In general, speaking can be said as the process of delivering an address to utter words or articulate sounds as human being to express thoughts by words. According to ▇▇▇▇▇ (2003,p.46) Speaking is a productive oral skill and it consists of producing systematic verbal utterance to convey meaning . Speaking is the way in which we express or exchange thoughts and feeling thourgh using language. Another definition is proposed by ▇▇▇▇▇▇ (2009,p.343). He defines speaking as an activity which happens when two people are engaged in talking to each other. In this activity, speakers have to share their ideas, thoughts, or opinions during the speaking activity. Moreover, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ (2001,p.26) states that speaking is the ability to pronounce articulations of sounds or words to express thought, ideas and feels. Speaking is a system of signs that is audible and visible using muscles of human being for the purpose of that ideas. Therefore, speaking is only sounds or word pronunciation. Speaking is a productive skill, its development is undertaken after the receptive skill of listening comprehension, perhaps of reading and is always somewhat behind that of the receptive skill. Speaking is the productive skill. In the oral mode. It, like the other skills, is more complicated than it seems at first and involves more than just pronouncing words. According to ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ (2005: 36) There are four criteries used to mark the speaking test are:...

Speaking. Speaking 0 (No Proficiency) Unable to function in the spoken language. Oral production is limited to occasional isolated words. Has essentially no communicative ability. Speaking 0+ (Memorized Proficiency) Able to satisfy immediate needs using rehearsed utterances. Shows little real autonomy of expression, flexibility or spontaneity. Can ask questions or make statements with reasonable accuracy only with memorized utterances or formulae. Attempts at creating speech are usually unsuccessful.

Speaking. You can present clear, detailed descriptions on a wide range of subjects related to your field of interest, explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options, and interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible. Reading: You can understand longer texts of middle difficulty using restricted general and subject-specific vocabulary and understand their main idea, viewpoint and some specific details. Writing: You can write clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects related to your interests. You can write text related to your studies using to a certain extent complex sentence structures and subject-specific vocabulary. Listening: You can understand difficult authentic speech of general and subject-specific interest containing a broad vocabulary, picking up explicit and implicit information, even when it is not clearly structured. You can understand television programs and films and follow university lectures.