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Reading to Speak: Integrating Oral Communication Skills

          Speaking skill is the most important skill and students must master several difficult microskills, including the pronunciation of unfamiliar phonemes, the correct placement of stress and intonation and the appropriate use of formal and informal expressions.

        How to integrate oral communication skills. Speaking is added to reading and writing lessons to ensure that students receive essential practice in oral communication. The listening skill is already a natural complement to any true speaking activity, adding speaking opportunities to reading or writing lesson automatically allows students to integrate at least three skills. The integration of speaking and reading activities can be used in both intensive and extensive reading class. There are 3 activities that are 1.> Read to act 2.> Read to debate and 3.> Read to interview.

        Reading comes first and speaking is following. When teacher integrates speaking skills, it improves students’ communicative competence. Teacher can use these activities to practice students to speak fluency.