Supporting the speaking development of students in a Swahili-as-a-foreign-language (SFL) classroom
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https://doi.org/10.4314/gjl.v9i1.241Keywords:
Swahili, Swahili as a foreign language, speaking, speaking developmentAbstract
Till date, the development of students’ language skills in a Swahili-as-a-foreign-language (SFL) context has not been thoroughly investigated. Rather, a majority of work has focused on grammar. This paper examines the activities that are used in an elementary SFL classroom at an American University to support the speaking development of students. Observation and in-depth interviews reveal that there are four main speaking activities used to support students’ speaking development. The findings highlight the importance of purposefully selecting speaking activities to support the speaking development of students in a SFL classroom.
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