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Receptive Skills and Challenges in Language Learning:

1. Introduction Definition of Receptive Skills: Reading, listening, and, more recently, viewing images and audiovisual texts. Goals: Understanding written and spoken texts, decoding images, connecting text and images (e.g., comics, films, digital texts). Relevance: Modern information and communication technologies place new demands on language learning. 2. Interactive Processes Top-Down Processing: Interpretation based on prior knowledge, expectations, and context (schema, genre knowledge). Examples of Activities: Generating questions, making predictions, activating background knowledge. Bottom-Up Processing: Constructing meaning through decoding of words, grammar, and symbols. Examples of Activities: Recognizing details, starting with the text as the main source of information. 3. Challenges Deficits in Receptive Skills: Lack of top-down processing among less successful learners. Errors in Classroom Practice: Focus on word-by-word comprehension instead of general text understanding. Combining listening and reading at the same time, which can cause confusion. Difficulties in Listening Comprehension: Speed and variations in language can pose challenges. Films: Multimodal demands (language, visual cues, film-specific techniques). 4. Teaching Approaches Process-Oriented Approach: Pre-Phase: Preparatory activities, such as generating expectations and activating background knowledge. While-Phase: Structure and tasks to support understanding. Post-Phase: Reflection, personal reactions, and deeper engagement with the text. Techniques: Reading Techniques: Skimming, scanning, intensive reading, making inferences, contextual guessing. Listening Techniques: Global listening, listening for specific information, inference. 5. The Role of Emotions Emotions: Help with memory retention, capture attention, and link content to personal experiences. Support in Teaching: Considering emotions to promote deeper comprehension. 6. Interdependence of Genre, Goal, and Strategy Genres and Goals: Using different types of texts and media for everyday situations (brochures, films, news). Purposes for Reading and Listening in Real Life: Reading Purposes: Gathering information, following instructions, enjoyment. Listening Purposes: Public announcements, media, conversations. These points provide a strong foundation for your mindmap and cover the main topics from the text.

Interdependence of Genre, Goal, and Strategy

Purposes for Reading and Listening in Real Life

Listening purposes

conversations

media

(public) announcements

Reading purposes

enjoyment

instructions

information

Genres and Goals in language learning: Using different types of texts and media for everyday situations (brochures, films, news).

The Role of Emotions

Support in Teaching: Emotions in promoting deeper comprehension

Emotions: Help with memory retention, capture attention, and link content to personal experiences.

4) Teaching Approaches

Techniques for Listening

Global listening

inference

specific information

Techniques for Reading

Making inferences and contextual guessing

Skimming

intensive reading

scanning

Process-Oriented Approach

Post-Phase: Reflection, personal reactions, and deeper engagement with the text.

While-Phase: structure and tasks to support understanding.

Pre-Phase activities: such as generating expectations and activating background knowledge.

3) Challenges

Difficulties in Listening Comprehension

Multimodal demands in films (language, visual cues, film-specific techniques).

Speed and variations in language

Errors in Classroom Practice

Combining listening and reading simultaneously, can cause confusion

Focus on word-by-word comprehension

Deficits in Receptive Skills

Lack of top-down processing among less successful learners

2) Interactive Processes

Bottom-Up Processing

Examples of Activities: Recognizing details, starting with the text as the main source of information.

Definition: Constructing meaning through decoding of words, grammar, and symbols.

Top-Down Processing

Examples of Activities: Generating questions, making predictions, activating background knowledge.

Definiton: Interpretation based on prior knowledge, expextations and context (schema, genre,..)

1) Introduction

Relevance of Receptive Skills in Modern Communication (place new demands on lannguage learning - 1990)

Goals: Understanding written and spoken texts, decoding images, connecting text and images (e.g., comics, films, digital texts).

Definition of Receptive Skills: Reading, listening, and, more recently, viewing images and audiovisual texts.