This paper has focused on two techniques which are particularly effective in addressing those two aims, reducing anxiety and ensuring meaningful exchanges in our classroom activities. First, selective error collection, which emphasizes fluency and thu...
This paper has focused on two techniques which are particularly effective in addressing those two aims, reducing anxiety and ensuring meaningful exchanges in our classroom activities. First, selective error collection, which emphasizes fluency and thus does not stop the flow of orally communicative activities, is one way of reducing students' anxiety by fostering a comfortable atmosphere that encourages voluntary speaking. The other technique is the use of small group work to create intimate communities in a large class, to provide realistic exchanges, and to allow students to participate more in oral activities.