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Unit 11 is a coverage of the receptive skills. It looks at what they are and the right approach to teaching them. I have been able to learn the following from the unit: Receptive skills - reading and listening Potential problems student often face with both receptive skills include: Long words, long sentences and complexity of the text for reading. Flow of information, speed of speaking, language use and accent of the speaker for listening However such potentials problems could be minimiszed in a number of ways: Predict and pre-teach langauge that might be problematic to the students Select text that will suit that level of the class Select topics that will be of common interest to all students Teach language essential to the understanding of the topic and encourage students to work out other vocabulary in context or use the ditcionary. Creating interest in receptive skill activities is a key to an effective receptive skills lesson. In order to create interest it first of all important to understand reasons for reading and listening. There are two basic reasons: for entertainment and purpose. Reading and email for nstance is reading for purpose meanwhile reading a novel or poem would be for entertaiment. With this in mind we can either create interest in our lesson by bringing out the fun or entertaining interest of it and sharing as a lesson or clearly explain the purpose for student to see the importance and reason to get engaged. To conclude the summary of my collection from the unit, below is the outline of the six main ways or purposes for reading and/or listening: -Predictive reading - making elaborate guesses or redictions from a short section of the text, for instance, predicting the content of a story from a news headline. -Scannin - reading for a specific information -Skim read - reading to get the general idea -Detailed reading - Reading word for word for every detail -deductive reading - presumptive understanding of language used.
