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Teaching the Basics of Spoken English in the L2 Context

SPEAKING

Speech making is simply the art of producing sounds. This is evident at every stage of the human life. From birth, the first effort to speaking is through noise making in form of a cry, which involves the production of sound by the new born. This usually signifies life.

Subsequently, the child develops to cooing, then babbling, after which the child produces mono-syllabi, such as '-ter', an extract from the word, 'wa-ter'. Either way, the child is producing some sounds, even though the child is unconscious of the linguistic rule, which indicates a combination of sounds (Consonant /t/) and (vowel /a:/ sounds). At this stage also, the child is not conversant of the appropriateness of the sound produced. For examples, the misuse of the long sound /a:/ instead of the shwa.

The child's language continues to develop until sentences are constructed based on the dictates of the child's interlanguage (linguistic manifastation of the child based on the knowledge of both L1 (possibly the mother tongue or the language of the immediate environment) and SL (second language). At this stage in the child's development, the child is able to make varying sounds in a rhythmic manner, hence the childs production of meaningful structures with which the child communicates with co-interlocutors. Margob28 (discuss • contribs) 12:33, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

REFERENCES

1. Chomsky, N. (1957) Syntactic structure. Muton. 2. Selinker, L. (1972). Interlanguage, IRAL. 10(3), 129. 3. Skinner, B.F. (1957). Verbal Learning. New York: ACC. Margob28 (discuss • contribs) 16:48, 19 May 2022 (UTC)