CONTENTS:- Preface 1. Training in oral communication skills. 2. Teaching and talking. 3. Speech improvement time. 4. The alphabet of sound. 5. Self-hearing and vocal phonics. 6. Improving fluency. 7. Thinking Aloud. 8. The improvement of voice. 9. Speech as a safety value of the emotions. 10. Helping children with speech defects in the classroom. 11. Typical speech improvement lesson plans. 12. Meeting youth's needs through writing. 13. Developing competence in grammar usage and spelling. 14. Making communication arts and skill reinforce each other.
DESCRIPTION
In the classroom of today most learning takes place through oral communication. Much of the academic material is presented by the teacher orally. Books, maps, pictures, films serve as guides and supplementary material but most of the burden is still the teacher's as many a raw throats at the end of a hard teaching day will testify. She recognizes that oral communication can be the most interesting, the most stimulating and the most rewar4ding of all teaching methods. The also knows that true understanding is often a reciprocal affairs. It is, in essence, an exchange of ideas and this exchange is verbal one. The present book equips English teacher for elementary school with knowledge, skills and attitudes for effective teaching.
