Techniques and chief stages of teaching monologue. Ex-ses for teaching monologue

Linguistic peculiarities of monologue.

Communicative and psychological characteristics of Monologue.

Outline.

Teaching Monologue

A monologue is a relatively extended, well-organized kind of speech, a result of individual composition which presupposes a lasting utterance of one person, addressed to the public”.

In other words, the essence of monologue is a connected, continuous expression of thought by one person, addressed to one or to a number of persons (auditory).

Basic communicative functions of M. are:

Ø Informative (to convey new information about smth);

Ø Influential (to persuade smb in smth);

Ø Evaluative or expressive.

The main communicative types of monological utterances:

1) A piece of information,

2) A piece of narration,

3) A piece of description

4) A piece of argumentation (reflection

The logical schemes of a Monologue are as follows:

Introduction Body (Main Part) Conclusion

Thesis Argument Illustration Conclusion

The units of teaching Monologues are:

§ The statement level, i.e. producing a sentence;

§ The utterance level, i.e. producing an utterance of a particular common type;

§ The discourse level, i.e. producing a connected extended text.

The aim of TM in a secondary school is to develop the skills of producing logically and communicatively motivated monologues of different levels.

The tasks of TM include the formation of speaking skills of:

· Retelling the text;

· Giving the description, narration, information, evaluation;

· Disclosing the topic suggested in logical succession;

· Giving the grounds, accounting for one’s ideas, introducing elements of argumentation.

Scheme of speech generation:

Level 1 – motivation.

Level 2 – forming –a phase of inner speech which includes making up a plan of an utterance in key with the intention.

Level 3 – realization – outer speech, when articulation and intonation mechanisms are at work.

Psychological characteristics of a Monologue:

1) Subject/topic centered;

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