Teaching Productive Skills to the Students: a secondary Level Scenario

e. 
Teachers’ Attitude towards Learners: 
The teacher should practice patience, confidence, imagination, enthusiasm, 
humor and creativity. He should be friendly, sympathetic and on good terms with the 
students and have an affirmative attitude towards the students and occasionally 
encourage them if necessary. 
f. 
Ensure Sufficient Teaching Aid: 
In the modern education system, teaching aids and equipment play a very crucial 
role. The communicative approach encourages use of as much teaching aids as 
possible in the class for facilitating learning. The language classes should be equipped 
with the various types of teaching aids, though it has been seen that the teachers use 
only the black board for teaching English as a foreign language. Nevertheless only 
black board cannot be used to teach speaking skills at class. It should be ensured that 
all students have proper teaching aids those are necessary to promote their learning on 
speaking. 
 
 

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g. 
Enhance Opportunity of Modern Technology: 
Modern technology helps to teach, learn and test oral/aural ability more easily 
than old equipment. Some modern teaching aids are Multi Media, overhead projector, 
audio visual aids, tape recorder, video films/movies, computer, internet etc. To facilitate 
better speaking these modern technologies should be used in classes. Language lab 
facilities should be included in. The authorities of the institutes should pay special 
attention to provide all the logistic support (multimedia classroom, language lab, self-
access center etc.) to 
improve students‟ oral skills. 
h. 
Limited Class Size and Proper Class Duration: 
Class environment plays a significant role in teaching and learning process. 
Normally in our country it is seen that a big number of students sit together in a small 
classroom, and a single teacher alone conducts the large group of students. Therefore, 
the class appears very noisy and chaotic. Neither the teacher nor the students can 
concentrate on teaching and learning activities. It is very difficult to teach such a large 
class. In addition, class duration should be appropriate for completing the syllabus along 
with enough practice of four language skills adequately. However, to make an 
interactive class, the size of class should be made small. Number of students in class 
can be limited (not more than 30 students). Again duration of class should be increased.