Organizational Forms in ELT with Respect to Language Skills Development

Abstract

This thesis deals with the development of speaking skills as one of the aims and means of communicative competence development. Opportunities for speaking skills development are explored primarily in connection with the use of individual organizational forms, mainly group work and pair work. A strategy of collaborative action research was employed in order to increase the opportunities for speaking skills development in a particular ELT class. The thesis is divided into a practical part and a theoretical part accordingly.