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This unit explains receptive skills like reading and listening. There are different reasons for reading and listening. It may be for a purpose or for entertainment. Reading and listening are not only matters for the eyes and ears but also a matter of using our minds to literally understand words and process them in our pre-existent knowledge to gain true understanding. Readers and listeners use a number of specialist skills. This can be predictive skills. We read or listen for specific information. We are trying to get a general understanding of the content. We read in order to understand everything in detail. Sometimes we need to be able to understand or deduce the meaning of individual words or phrases from the context. There are many ways of approaching language difficulty. Pre-teaching vocabulary is one way to help students difficult and unknown structures, prior to commencing a reading or listening activity. Careful selection of texts is an other way. Non-autentic texts will allow students acces to material that contains language more suited to the student's abilities. Authentic texts will expose students to texts that should give them confidence in their skills.
