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The unit began by first distinguishing between receptive and productive skills in the context of language learning, revealing that reading and listening are specifically receptive skills. The unit built further upon this by elaborating on differing motivations for reading and listening (for a specific goal, for entertainment or a combination of the two). Next the unit discussed so called specialist skills employed when reading and listening (predictive skills, scanning content for specific information, looking for a general idea by skimming, reading or listening to the entirety of selected content to get the totality of detailed information and finally deduction of meaning based on the context of the information). Then the unit discovered problems learners have with reading and listening (difficult vocabulary, reading captured language on paper versus listening to non-captured language) as well as some remedies the teacher may use to help learners better comprehend the content (pre-teaching difficult vocabulary words prior to beginning the study phase of a lesson, selection of authentic texts [not designed for students to read] versus non-authentic texts [designed for students to read]). The unit built upon this subject further by discussing ways to better engage students to develop their enthusiasm to learn and comprehend the lesson content (selecting various topics that are likely to interest the students, using visual aids or discussing the topic with the students to build up their interest as well as the inclusion of tasks that are not to difficult but not too easy for the students to complete to help them further engage with the lesson content). Finally the unit concluded with an example patchwork structured ESA lesson as an example for teaching receptive skills to students.
