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We have previously looked at the importance of integrated skills in the classroom, and also examined receptive skills in more detail. Now we take a look at the productive skills: speaking and writing. While speaking and writing are substantially different in many ways, they both are used for the same purpose – to communicate.
In many ways, writing is the most neglected skill in the TEFL world, as many teachers don't like to see classroom hours being devoted to what is often 'quiet time'. Writing, therefore, is often relegated to homework, which in turn is frequently not done and so theskillisneverdeveloped. Itistruetosaythatmost students prefer to focus on their speaking skills but that doesn't mean that writing should be ignored. In many ways writing is the more difficult skill, requiring a greater degree of accuracy. When speaking, any misunderstandings can be cleared up 'on the spot', whereasthisisnotpossiblewithwriting. Speaking,on the other hand, requires a greater degree of fluency as the speaker will rarely have time to think and plan an answer.
