How to Encourage English Department Students to Speak English more Often and Confidently

Speaking English is very important for English Department Students. It could bring good effects if they always practice it every day. In fact, many English department student not using English in their speaking, especially in their class. Actually there are so many activity can make student more often and confident to speak English.

Firstly, make students into groups than give an interesting game. For example broad race game. Divide the class into two teams each standing in line at the board. Give them a topic like food and drink, sports, countries etc. The student at the front on each line runs to the board and must write a word in this lexical set beginning with A on the board. She then hands the marker to the next person in the row (and runs to the back of the line), who adds a word beginning with B until they reach Z. If they cannot think of a word beginning with a particular letter they can leave a space, but the team with most words at the end is the winner.

Second, watching film. Learning from films is delightful. Film not only can help student to know how to pronounce word, but also can increase vocabulary of the students. Watching film make students to know language variety. They can learn Australian English from Australian film, Indian English from Indian film, etc. It also can help students to know about the culture of them.

Third, reading English book. We can give reading text to the student. It can provide opportunities to speak English. For example it can increase vocabulary, grammar, punctuation and the way we construct sentence, paragraph and texts. We should give reading text depend on who the student are. It can make them cozy to speak English.

Forth, listening English audio. For example English songs or conversation. Sing their favorite song can make their fluently to speak English because most of the students like singing. Not only for listening English songs but also listening English conversation can make the student confident to speak English. It can help the student to know about the culture of the others country.

Fifth, practice speaking English. After reading and listening something, students have to practice apart of it in front of the others. They have to know the meaning of it, how to pronoun it, and how to spell it. Most of expert said that practice make perfect. If the student get used to it they will be confident and they can speak English fluently. And we can give prize to the best student.

Sixth, we can ask to students to download games application for learning English. For example Hello English, Duolingo and others. Most of the students like to play game, so it can be good way to make their speaking English to be better.