Productive and Receptive Skills
Listening
Importance
daily life
Teacher
topics
methodology
adequate to levels
provide materials
encourage
Students
frustation
understand what needed
anticipate content
specific details
sense of achievement
Reading
What is it?
Recognise words
Differences between a foreign language and L1
Reading is the same
unable to recognise the words
Difficulties to read in a foreign language
Understand all words
Types
Reading for detail
Stop-start-back
Skimming
general questions
Scanning
locate information
Extensive reading
longer reading
Why read?
Pleasure
Duty
Writing
What is it?
mental process and individual activity
How could we do it?
Preparatory steps
How can students generate ideas?
Brainstorming
Text start
Fast-writing
How can teachers help students to realise it?
Examples
Feedback
Structuring and organising
Correction codes
Ortography
Spelling
Layout
Language
Speaking
Problems
No interest/motivation/desire to speak
No knowledge
PANIC!
Teacher
Structuring talk
Avoiding talk-talk loop
Open questions
Devil's advocate
Fluency
Fluency vs. Accuracy
Confidence
Keys for a successful discussion
Frame it
Preparation
Flow
Specific problems
Organisation and materials
Communicative activities
Genre
Why is it important?