Speaking Essay In English

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SPEAKING
As human being, we need to communicate with others to deliver messages or express something. The way to convey or express something to other is speaking. In other words, speaking is an interactive process of constructing meaning that involves producing and receiving and processing information (Brown, 1994; Burns & Joyce, 1997). The form of speaking is depending on the context, participants, experiences, physical environment and the purposes. Without speaking someone is hard to deliver the message for the receiver. Speaking is sometimes also spontaneous and not always unpredictable. Spontaneous means speaking is happen at the time while not always unpredictable is speaking can be prepared before. There are three processes of the production …show more content…

Recently, people need to boost their skills with another thing, it is vocabulary. Students who learn English as L2 need to know vocabulary much in order to add their understanding about English words. In simple meaning, vocabulary is set of words in language that are known by that person. Cambridge Advanced Learners dictionary defined vocabulary as all the words known and used by a particular person. There are many advantages of having wide vocabulary, first it can express yourself better and impressing others. Second, vocabularies allow people to have finer distinction in their thinking. Third, vocabularies in the field of study allow people to think better and more productively about the aspect of the study. Fourth, having wide vocabulary make people are more accurately to describe something. Fifth, wide vocabulary also can make people have better job, salaries and friends because they have good self confidence. As we know before, there are four categories of vocabulary; reading vocabulary, listening vocabulary, speaking vocabulary and speaking vocabulary. Reading vocabulary is all the words he or she can recognize when reading and generally the largest type of vocabulary. Listening vocabulary is all the words he or she can recognize when listening to a speech by using tone, gestures, topic and context of the conversation. Speaking vocabulary is all the words he or she uses in speech and it is to be a subset of listening vocabulary. The last, writing vocabulary is words that are used in various forms of writing from formal to informal one. (Wilkins, 1972) once said “without grammar, very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary, nothing can be

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