Record and listen back
Every spoken turn is recorded and played back straight away, because students rarely hear their own errors until they hear them from outside.
VSTEP · Everyday speaking
Đỗ Minh Khuê
Main strength
Builds speaking practice on recording and listening back, so students hear their own errors before anyone corrects them.
- IELTS score
- 8.0
- Experience
- 6 years
Leads VSTEP and the everyday speaking classes, focusing on the spoken half — where both programmes ask for the same thing: full sentences, on the point, long enough to hold up.
Introduction
About Đỗ Minh Khuê
Six years of teaching, leading VSTEP and the everyday speaking classes. The two programmes end somewhere different but meet in the spoken half: the VSTEP paper asks candidates to present an issue and then defend a view, and the speaking class needs that same ability at an everyday level.
The method is recording: students listen back to themselves, compare against a model, then say it again. Hearing your own error is the step that cannot be skipped, and it usually takes several sessions before students can start correcting it.
In the classroom
How these lessons run
Practice in pairs
Students speak to each other rather than only to the teacher, which multiplies the number of turns each of them gets in a session.
Stress before vocabulary
Word stress and linking are corrected first; advanced vocabulary only helps once the listener can make out the word.
Currently teaching
Courses and skills
Programmes taught
- VSTEP
- Everyday speaking
VSTEP
All four skills to the shape of the paper, weighted towards the two-turn speaking section: present an issue, then answer follow-up questions.
Everyday speaking
The class for beginners: full sentences in everyday situations, pronunciation, and the listen–understand–reply reflex.
Next step
Find the class that matches your current level
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