IMPROVING SPEAKING SKILLS WITH THE AIDS OF DISCUSSIONS AND DEBATES
Keywords:
debate, discussion, communication, self-expression, eye-contact, body language, decision-making, envoys, debaters, multi-task.Abstract
The article is dedicated to the study of the specific peculiarities of improving speaking skills with the aids of discussions and debates for intermediate level learners. Developing speaking skills has always been one of the most important, essential and disputable issues of methodology of foreign languages, namely the English language. It is common knowledge that teaching speaking skills has become an actual matter of teaching methodology at present day.
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