Tham khảo tài liệu 'kaplan toefl ibt fourth edition part 44', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Chapter 5 Speaking 29S of phrases and clauses sc it s important to follow that organization when you speak. Mark pauses on the transcripts that you practice with and alternate the location of certain pauses to sec which pause sounds more natural. If the transcript conics from a listening activity use the spoken recording as a guide and try to tecreate the same pauses as the speaker. Strategy 4 Speak in English al least as often as you write read and listen. Like all language abilities. speaking requires regular practice. However speaking is usually the skill that students practice the least. It is all too common for TOEFL students to prepare for the exam by mostly reading and writing often in silence and communicating mostly in their native languagels . This study habit might be sufficient for some fields but it is insufficient for language learning especially speaking. All language abilities arc related 0 practicing one skill does reinforce the others through vocabulary and structure among other things. Reading for example is the best way to learn new words in context. However many students write much more easily and fluently than they speak so they focus on writing because it is more familiar and comfortable. It s natural to prefer to do what we are good at. but you need to speak as often as possible. First many students are better writers than speakers because they ve done far more academic writing in English than speaking. If you write belter than you speak in English then this is proof that practice works h s important to give yourself as much speaking practice as possible. With more practice you can become a belter speaker. Also writing allows for more thought and self-correction than speaking does. Therefore even though you may know many ways of expressing something you may be most accustomed to generating the vocabulary and structure slowly and rewriting it often. However unlike writing speech must be connected and continuous. You can t begin a .
