The Master thesis is focused on developing spoken production at B1 level in Italian and English as foreign languages. The theoretical part is focused on identifying the key concepts, relevant to the development of spoken production. First of all, it defines communicative competence by outlining it throughout methodological history, all the way to the communicative approach. The term communicative competence is then further elaborated by the definitions of several authors, as well as by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (Council of Europe, 2018). The following chapters define spoken production, concentrating on the definition of speaking and defining speech genres, as well as dealing with features of spoken language. The second part of the theoretical frame deals with the process of developing spoken production in a foreign language environment, focusing on the knowledge that language learners need to be able to produce speech, and simultaneously looking at the process of speech production, including the aspect of errors and their significance in speech production. Lastly, the theoretical part outlines the variables in the learning environment, namely the role of the language teacher, teaching methods, and the learning materials. The empirical part aims to discover how the scaffolding materials in a flipped learning classroom foster the development of spoken production with B1-level learners, particularly when it comes to producing narrative-descriptive and argumentative genres.
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