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This unit focuses on reading and listening. There are four basic skills in any language; receptive skills(reading and listening) and productive skills(speaking and writing). Here we will focus on receptive skills tht is reading and listening. We can divide the reasons and motives for reading and listening into two; For a purpose, this type of reading and listening takes place because it will help us achieve some particular aim or goal. For entertainment, very often we lisaten to or read information because we find it pleasurable or enjoyable in some way. Readers and listeners employ a number of specialist skills when reading or listening and their understanding of the context will depend on their expertise in these areas. Predictive skills, for example predicting the content of an article pr dialogue from a headline or introduction. Specific information- scanning, we often listen or read for specific information. For example, we listen to the news only concerntrating when a particular story comes up. General idea- skimming, this is where we read or listen for the gist of a text/dialogue, we do not focus on every single word but we are just trying to get a general understanding of the content. There are many ways of approaching language difficulty, some of which include; Pre-teaching vocabulary, one way of helping students is to teach them difficult/unknown language and structures, prior to commencing a reading or listening activity. Careful selection of texts, if the teacher is careful as to listening and reading material presented to the students, he/she can expose the student to a variety of authentic and non-authentic texts. The basic key to successful receptive skills lessons are; Choose material that interest/motivate the students. Build interest before reading/listening. Vary the type of material. Use the material to practise different skills. What I have personally learnt from the unit are the reasons for reading and listening, how we read and listen , problems with listening and reading and the basic key to successful receptive skill lesson.
