This article aims to introduce some ways of using Recording technique(RT) as an effective tool for error correction in teaching and learning speakingskills for EFL students, based on the improvement learners achieved from errorcorrection executed with RT. | JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, Hue University, Vol. 70, No 1 (2012) pp. 143-153 RECORDING TECHNIQUE: POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS IN TEACHING AND LEARNING SPEAKING SKILLS FOR EFL LEARNERS Nguyen Ngoc Nhat Minh College of Foreign Languages, Danang University Abstract. This article aims to introduce some ways of using Recording technique (RT) as an effective tool for error correction in teaching and learning speaking skills for EFL students, based on the improvement learners achieved from error correction executed with RT. From the pilot research, some findings have been revealed about the effectiveness of employing RT to correct speaking errors made by EFL (English as Foreign Languages) learners in speaking tasks. Clearly, RT has proven to be helpful to improve a lot of errors in different aspects of speaking skills. From those results, the author recognizes that RT, like other methods widely used in speaking classes so far in Vietnam, can be applied fruitfully either in the speaking classroom or in other kinds of practice in which speaking skills are required. Also, some advantages as well as disadvantages to enhance the effectiveness of using RT are also verified through the author’s observation and participants’ surveyed opinions. Keywords: recording technique; error correction; teaching pronunciation; speaking skills. 1. Introduction There have been plenty of methods normally used in the classroom (. conventional methods) but quite a few learners and teachers still admit that there have existed a lot of mistakes in speakers’ performance and many of them have shaped as errors later. This has implied the fact that much more attention needs placing on teaching speaking skills, otherwise mistakes would get fixed for further utterances. In many foreign countries, people have employed Recording Technique to teach and learn speaking skills and recently, some Asian countries like Korea, Japan or China have accessed this technique but it has not been used officially and become .
