Conversational Strategies
Renzo Zambrano
Section 851
Reading Number 2: Speaking


I really liked this guide like the previous one because it is really helpful for developing strategies for speaking skills. It shows also a reality of what is happening with English student when they need to speak to proove that they are actually learning a language. In this really nice guide I could find certain problems that happened to me when I was starting to speak English, I used to think that native speakers wouldn´t understand what I was trying to say, so it was really fustrating for me because I had the great opportunity to speak with natives who were a group of northamerican guys who lived near my house and I used to go out when them a lot, so I take advantage of these great moments to practice my speaking. One thing that I wanted to do also was that I wanted to have the same accent as a native, but as we discussed this in classes, a person can´t lose their accent from the country of origin, but I am trying my best to speak like a northamerican person. It bothers me the idea that I keep making the same mistakes over and over again, This has happened to me a lot in the past when I was presenting a test, so when I noticed that I was making the same mistake, I got fustrated. I agree with the fact that teachers shouldn´t correct their students while they are speaking because they can forget what they are trying to say making them feel embarrased in front of the class. They should have individual conversations whith them and let them know what mistakes they did.