Classroom Techniques and Tasks for Teaching Speaking

The main purpose of this study is to improve students? speaking skill and to enable them to communicate well the target language. This study discusses about Classroom Techniques and Tasks for Teaching Speaking which fulfills students? communicative needs in order to enable the students communicate well the target language. According to Harmer (2009) and Nunan (2003), speaking is a productive skill and theoritically it is a mental process. This means that it is a psychological process by which a speaker puts a mental concept into some linguistic form, such as words, phrases, and sentences used to convey a message to a listener. This article will focus on nine classroom techniques and tasks for teaching speaking.