Developing speaking in mixed-ability classes

Abstract

The research paper will discuss how speaking skills in differentiation classrooms or mixed-ability classes should be simultaneously improved. What comes to our mind when we hear “mixed ability classes”? How can we develop pupils’ speaking skills in such classes? All teachers want to find out appropriate solution to this problem. Teachers have to conduct their speaking lessons according to their learners’ needs and lack. What should they do if the lacks and needs differ from each other and the pupils have differentiated abilities? So, in such classes, pupils have different grammar knowledge, different receptive skills, and productive skills like speaking, and these kinds of classes are called mixed ability classes or multi-leveled classes. Teachers may have useful information from this piece about enhancing all pupils’ attendance in the teaching process, developing pupils’ speaking skills with the help of some useful methods, and how to motivate pupils for showing their existing speaking level.