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TEACHING RECEPTIVE SKILLS.
Reading and listening - there are various reasons for reading and listening. these include:
* to achieve a purpose.
* for entertainment.
* and a mix of both.
There are a number of skills required to understand a text/dialogue. they are,
* predictive - to predict the content of a text from the headline of an article.
* to scan for a piece of specific information such as a text from the President's speech.
* to skim through an article to get the general gist.
* detailed information - this is reading in order to understand everything in detail.
The problems associated with reading and listening is the language, such as sentence length, word length and using words that are unfamiliar to the students. this can be tackled by,
* pre-teaching vocabulary.
* careful selection of texts that are compatible with the students' abilities.
* topics - choose topics that are of interest to the students.
* tasks - choose tasks that promote understanding.
From this unit, I learnt the purposes of reading and listening, the skills required and how to tackle problems arising from language difficulties.
