Hablando se entiende la gente? Una propuesta práctica para desarrollar la interacción oral en la clase de lengua extranjera

Abstract

With this work we intend to reflect on the oralinteraction in a foreign language class, its protagonists, how to include it to the classroom and with what objectives. Furthermore, some consideration will be given to guidelines to analyse and design spoken interaction activities and tasks that also respond to the needs and interests of our students. Subsequently, following the above guidelines, a practical proposal entitled "Waiter, please!", aimed at students of level B1, will be developed in detail. The main objectives here are for learners to participate in a social situation -in this case in a restaurant -(student as a social agent), to act according to the norms and social conventions of the target culture (student as an intercultural speaker), applying the necessary strategies and metacognitive procedures and to reflect on their use throughout the learning process (student as autonomous learner)