# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Stop teaching speaking, so to speak.
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 14 Oct, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Wed, 14 Oct, 2026 at 07:30 pm (+00:00)
- **Event Description**: 👤 Speaker: Grzegorz Śpiewak
📘 Topic: "Stop teaching speaking, so to speak."
📅 When: Wednesday, October 14, 2026 | 🕒 20:30–21:30 CEST

📝 About the webinar:
A quarter of a century after the CEFR was published, language teaching has still largely failed to act on one of its most consequential distinctions: spoken interaction vs. spoken production. In everyday classroom practice, the two are still treated as variants of the same skill, assessed with the same criteria and corrected with the same instincts. The result is a silent contradiction at the heart of communicative teaching: learners are asked to interact but judged as if they were performing. 
 
In this session I’ll argue that many familiar problems in speaking lessons — over-correction, unclear expectations, fragile fluency, and learner frustration — are not methodological accidents, but symptoms of a deeper conceptual confusion. Drawing on CEFR descriptors, research on interactional competence, and psycholinguistic models of speech, the session demonstrates why interaction and production are in essence incompatible modes — cognitively, pedagogically, and assessment-wise.
 
The talk challenges modern EFL professionals to stop teaching “speaking” as a single construct and to adopt two distinct strategies of success, with radically different feedback, standards, and roles for both teachers and learners.

🔗 Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/jrhh6s8CSH-rf-hJXjYKdg
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/zgorzelec/stop-teaching-speaking-so-to-speak/200030769898539
- **Event Categories**: performances, workshops, meetups, art, fine-arts, entertainment, virtual, webinar
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 29

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Zgorzelec
- **location**: Online event
- **full address**: Online event, ulica Armii Krajowej 51A, 59-900 Zgorzelec, Polska, Zgorzelec

## Event gallery

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Stop teaching speaking, so to speak. being held?
  - **A:** Stop teaching speaking, so to speak. takes place on Wed, 14 Oct, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Wed, 14 Oct, 2026 at 07:30 pm at Online event, ulica Armii Krajowej 51A, 59-900 Zgorzelec, Polska, Zgorzelec.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Stop teaching speaking, so to speak.?
  - **A:** Stop teaching speaking, so to speak. is organized by IATEFL Poland.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Stop teaching speaking, so to speak. is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Zgorzelec, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Stop teaching speaking, so to speak. sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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