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Teaching receptive skills
Reasons for reading:
Reading or listening for a purpose or goal: reading operating manuals and instructions or listening to direction.
Reading for entertainment, pleasure or joy: reading novels or listening to jokes.
Reading and listening skills:
Predictive skill: predicting the content from a headline.
Specific information - scanning:looking into a newspaper to find a football result.
General idea or skimming: reading to get a general understanding.
Detailed information: reading to understand everything in detail.
Deduction from content: reading to deduce the meaning of individual words and phrases.
Problems with listening and reading:
Ways of approaching language difficulty:
Pre-teaching vocabulary.
Careful selection of texts.
An outline of a typical receptive skills lesson (patchwork)
Engage: questions about the topic and allowing the students to read/listen and then checking if the text answers their questions.
Study: Pre Teach potentially problematic vocabulary.
Engage: Eliciting information from students.
Study: Students read the text and then answer comprehension tasks.
Activate: Remove the text from view and students write a brief review on the topic. Then in pairs students compare and feedback to the class.
Study: Dealing with any language problems during review.
Activate: In pairs, students write a brief paragraph on a similar topic.
