Mid – term exam Teaching and Integrating Language Skills

Mid – term exam
Teaching and Integrating Language Skills
Task 1: Activity design and presentation on receptive and productive skills.
Key Words: Receptive skills, productive skill, authentic material, Internet.
Introduction: Receptive and productive skills
Receptive Skills
In language teaching, the receptive skills are those skills where meaning is extracted from the spoken or written discourse. Those skills are listening and reading, respectively.
Productive Skills
The productive skills, on the other hand, refer to the skills where the students are invited to produce language in written or spoken forms, that is in speaking and writing.
Teaching language skills
Teaching language skills differs considerably from the approaches adopted in teaching the other language components , such as grammar, vocabulary, and functions. Grammar, vocabulary, and functions Grammar, vocabulary, and functions are usually taught using PPP (i.e. Present, Practice, produce) and TBL (i.e. Task – Based -Learning) approaches. Teaching language skills follows quite different procedures.