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This unit focuses on two receptive skills, which are reading and listening. Both are equally important when learning English because both are needed in everyday life. There are two main reasons why someone would need to read or listen well. One is because it serves a purpose, like understanding oral directions or reading the details of a doctors prescription. It is for a purpose. There are also ways that listening and reading can be for pleasure, such as wanting to understand your friends story or joke, or reading the subtitles on a movie. There are also different specialty skills that can be used to help someone when listening or reading. For example, if a person is able to skim the content of an article, they could then glean the meaning behind it with out getting stuck on every word, but understand the message. Another skill would be being able to predict, from something like a headline, what is about to be said. This could happen on the nightly news, a weather forecast or a newspaper headline of a sports team. In addition, if a person can deduce what a certain phrase says or what the meaning is behind it, this helps them know key behaviors. Like at the postoffice, it could say \"serving in order of numbers\" and this could lead a person to know they need to pull a ticket. There are also times when you need to read or listen in detail and be able to understand those details. This would be something like correctly understanding directions. There are different problems that reading or listening can bring to a language learner. In some ways, reading may be easier because the student can re-read and refer back to the text. So this allows for a certain advantage. However, new, or long words can make this still a challenge. When listening, the learner does not get to \"see\" or refer back to what was said if they did not understand unless they ask for it to be repeated. When a teacher is focusing on these skills in a lesson there are certain techniques they can use to help improve the students ability to listen or read. They can pick topics that would be of interest or are important to the class. Also through well planned engage activities they can build excitement or interest on the topic. Furthermore, the teacher can pre-teach certain new words that will help with a hearing or reading exercise. In conclusion, a teacher needs to incorporate both of these skills into a lesson for their students but also needs to be aware of the problematic areas and how they can help the students succeed better.
