Teaching Teenagers and Teaching Speaking

Teaching teenagers Teenager is defined as a person who is between 13 and 19 years old. Teenager is age of transition between child and adult, confusion, self consciousness, growing, and changing bodies and minds.

Teaching teenager is different from teaching young learners. Some people belief that teenagers are unmotivated, surly, and uncooperative it is the reason they make poor language learners. There are some characteristics of teenagers:

a.  Teenagers’ intellectual capacity are abstractly adds. There are possible of increasing sophisticated intellectual.

b.     Teenagers can solve complex problems with logical thinking. It is the impact of linguistic metalanguage.

c.       They need more attention spans is a result of intellectual maturation.

d.     Varieties of sensory input are still important, but again, increasing capacities for abstraction lessen the essential nature of appealing to all five senses.

e.      Factor surrounding ago, self-image, and self-esteem are taking a crucial role.

f.        Secondary school students are of course becoming increasingly adult in their ability to thinking. But as teaching adults, care must be taken not to insult them with stilted language or to bore them with overanalyzes.

Teens are so sensitive to how others perceive their changing physical and emotional selves along their mental capability. One of the most important concerns of secondary school teacher is to keep selfesteem high by:

a.      Avoiding embarrassment of students

b.      Affirming each person’s talents and strengths

c.       Allowing mistakes and other errors to be accepted

d.     De-emphasizing competition betthe writeren classmates

e.      Encouraging small-group work where risks can be taken more easily by teen

Teenagers’ if they are engaged, have a great capacity to learn, a great potential for creativity, and a passionate commitment to things which interest them. The teachers’ job is must be provoke student engagement which is relevant and involving. As Jeremy Harmer from Herbert Puchta and Michael Schratz states that problem with teenagers as resulting, in part from the teachers’ failure to build bridges between what they want and they have got and their students’ worlds of thought and experience.

Teens are capable learning issues directly in why those young learners might not. The writer is able to discuss abstract issues with them. Indeed the teacher job is to provoke intellectual activity by helping them to be aware of contrasting ideas and concepts which they can resolve or themselves with our guidance.

Teaching Speaking Speaking is productive skill consist of verbal utterance production which derives attention both in first and second language, the purpose is to share idea or meaning, speaking also requires some skills like pronunciation, word order, intonation, stress and structure. In order to understand speaker’s meaning.

Speaking requires both knowledge and skill.  It means that not only knowing how to assemble phrases or sentences with particular formula, but also how to produce and adapt them in here and now situation. This means to make decision rapidly, implementing them smoothly and adjusting speech as unexpected problems might appear.

Speaking means the art or of person who speaks which is spoken. There are two aspects of speaking: 

a.      Making a practice of speaking or conversation. It means that speaking is talk with the others about anything to take and give information or knowledge by one to others.

b.      Having relationship on conversation as in greeting

It means that greeting as opening conversation and bringing a conversation to end to get a communication relationship. Speaking skill could be a talent, whereas a good skill needs practice and knowledge, people often performs the way and shape of their cloth.    Nonetheless they forgot to main their utterances to be well performed.

Speaking has meanings, Bygate says that speaking is a skill deserves attention every bit as much as literary skills, in both first and second language. There two basic ways in which speaking can be seen as a skill, they are:

a.      Motor perceptive skills, including articulating, perceiving, recalling in the correct order sounds and structure of the language.

b.      Interaction skill, which cover making decision about communication, such as what to say, how to say it and whether to develop it, in accordance with one’s intentions, while maintaining the desired relation with other.

Based on the meaning above, the writer concludes that someone who wants to speak a foreign language has to know the rules of that language, like grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and word order, and to use them properly in communication.

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