We wanted to achieve the students whose spoken English competences boosted interactively and asynchronously by making them complete pair and group work activities with frequent online meetings with their foreign peers from partner schools in a planned but self-paced way. In this way we believed not only were they able to increase the level of their spoken English before completing their upper secondary education but also they were able to improve their digital and soft skills.In addition, we aimed to provide professional development of our foreign language teachers through workshops and trainings on creating their own assessment test of spoken English, interactive and asynchronous pair and group work activities for their distance,blended or hybrid classes. We also targeted to produce an e-guideline that includes our common assessment test of Spoken English, pair and group work implementations and some samples from them and reflections in order to share it with other foreign language teachers.
We observed that our students used to show poor performances in speaking English at the expected level,especially when compared with their listening, reading, and writing skills although they started studying English from early ages.One of the reasons which we agreed for this on was that they could not find any or enough opportunities to produce the target language after they left the classroom and immersed in their first language environment, which made practicing English impossible.Another one was that our students were not placed in English classes according to their levels but their age groups or general academic level. Therefore, they could not proceed at their own pace in the classroom or they might stay silent because of the vocal ones, or they might be much better than the others and they might not improve their English and made no progress. However, they needed to be much better in speaking English before completing their compulsory education since English is the lingua franca, which will open doors for better higher education, better employability conditions and wider social cohesion.That was why we applied for this project to boost the spoken English level of our students using interactive and asynchronous learning way.