PROMOTING LEARNERS' SPEAKING ABILITIES THROUGH SOCIAL STRATEGIES

This article discusses the development of students' speech through social strategies. Speaking is "the process of creating and exchanging meanings through the use of verbal and non-verbal cues in a variety of settings" (Chaney, 1998, p. 13). The purpose of teaching speaking in today's world requires improving students' communication skills, because only in this way can students express themselves and learn to follow the social and cultural rules that are appropriate in each communication situation.

In this regard, the information about the analysis of theory and practice of foreign language teaching, the features and the usage of social strategies, exercises and games that improves learners’ speaking abilities, the main stages of social strategies are listed in the article.