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This course unit content about the productive skills: speaking and writing. While speaking and writing are substantially different in many ways, they both are used for the same purpose-to communicate. In many ways, writing is the most neglected skill in the TEFL world, as many teachers don't like to see classroom hours being devoted to what is often 'quiet time'. Writing, therefore, is often relegated to homework, which in turn is frequently not done and so the skill is never developed. It is true to say that most students prefer to focus on their speaking skills but that doesn't mean that writing should be ignored. In many ways writing is the more difficult skill, requiring a greater degree of accuracy. When speaking, any misunderstandings can be cleared up 'on the spot', whereas this is not possible with writing. Speaking, on the other hand, requires a greater degree of fluency as the speaker will rarely have time to think and plan an answer. Communication between people is a very complex and ever changing thing. But there are generalizations that we can make which have particular relevance for the teaching and learning of languages. Therefore, if a teacher wishes to introduce a communicative activity to the students, she should bring in a number of the above factors. The teacher must create the need and desire, in the students, to communicate. If these factors are not present, it is far less likely that the activity will be the success that the teacher had envisaged. If the students don't see the point in doing something, they're far less likely to want to participate.
