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In speaking skills, teachers must ensure that they provide students with enough input so that when it comes to being able to use the language to the extent that they can succeed, they are able to do it. Teachers with little experience might get excited as to prompting students and correcting mistakes in fluency-based activites. They should make it better over time. As this unit emphasizes, it is especially important that after the process of giving the necessary input for students to be able to make sentences, they should be encouraged to focus more on fluency. Actually it does not mean teachers do not interrupt activities, however, as the sentence itself suggests, MORE on fluency, in other words, teachers can correct any thing WHEN NECESSARY. What should be given importance in writing skills is considerably different than speaking skills. This is initially because of the fact that some details in spoken production might be ignored since fluency might be more preferable whereas -just like in other languages- being able to write neatly and correctly is prominent simply because written language differs a lot from spoken language. For instance, writing like \"How you doing\" is an obvious example of slang which does not suit in a text. Students need to know how to put it in a text correctly. Story writing, using newspaper, cartoon strips with interesting topics are useful for writing skills. Especially story writing can help students use good and creative language. Using newspaper is likewise. Cartoon strips with a group work or pair work could be very entertaining
