Choral Speaking Appreciation: The Role Choral Speaking in Developing 2Ist-Century Skills to Children and Young Adults
Technology in our time today spreads in various forms, we even talk, play, and connect with other people easily with just a few clicks on our gadgets we can then able to do it. Technology enables our country to develop effectively and communication skills are one of the important skills that children and young adults need to develop, to do so we need to help them become globally competitive to survive in these real-life experiences. Communication, character, creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration are important 21st-century skills to enhance for us to succeed in various aspects of our lives. As teachers, we can develop this activity by putting some engaging instructions to implement in our classroom. Choral speaking is one of those activities that we can integrate. It is an activity in which students recite poems by group or individually depending on the strategy which holds a valuable opportunity for our students to hone their 21st-century skills.
Choral speaking and reading is an engaging type of activity that can help develop learners' reading ability. It is one way to make the art of poems be remembered and spread. Many literacy experts and teachers are developing this kind of activity as it holds various benefits for children and young adults. The first benefit of integrating choral speaking and reading into our classroom is that it can improve fluency, we all know that one of the important skills that we need to improve is communication so in this way we enable them to communicate and learn to express ideas through poetry.
Furthermore, choral speaking fosters collaboration and cooperation which creates a special bond in our learners. Allowing the team to communicate will definitely bring an impactful performance and experience to them. The second benefit of choral speaking is to give learners confidence in speaking orally. Confidence is a skill that not everybody can easily enhance, it takes a lot of courage to put a good impression and expression within us. Enhancing this ability will definitely allow our students to not just be proficient in the language but also confident to speak the language. Another benefit of choral speaking is that we are allowing our learners to appreciate literature in a different way which holds a deeper connection and new experience to them. We can say that our learners appreciate the literature when they remember and share their experiences with it. There are a lot of instances that children and young adults will definitely do this, and that is why it is important and responsibility for teachers to make their instructions meaningful to our students.
Moreover, in terms of relevant topics for choral speaking, we can have social Issues and diversity topics like "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar and "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou there are also topics about unity and harmony like "We Are Many" by Pablo Neruda. These topics will stand out as a great theme as these will help children and young adults appreciate the beauty of peace and harmony in our nation which is really an important learning to them since there are countries that where not able to get along. By doing this we can integrate inclusivity to their mind which is also the same in appreciating and accepting various literary pieces and genres of literature.
In conclusion, choral speaking helps and is a valuable way of activity in developing students' 21st-century skills in children and young adults. It provides an opportunity for them to appreciate literature in other forms and also helps them build a great foundation for themselves which enables them to build confidence and enhance different aspects of their skills that make them globally competitive with other places. Choral speaking gives way to children and young adults to accept diverse ideas and people.
Reference:
Team, B. (2022, September 8). What is choral reading? | Beanstack. The Beanstack Team. https://www.beanstack.com/blog/what-is-choral-reading
UCSI International School Subang Jaya. (2022, September 27). The 5Cs of 21st Century Education - UCSI International School Subang Jaya. https://www.ucsiinternationalschool.edu.my/sj/the-5cs-of-21st-century-education/
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