TEACHING

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Dr. Quyen Bui
 1. Võ Trần Mỹ Duyên
2. Phù Thị Kiều Búi
3. Trần Thị Tuyết Minh
4. Trương Thị Thanh Trúc

Group members
 Table of
Contents!
Definition Methodology
1. Receptive skills 1. Receptive skills
2. Productive skills 2. Productive skills
3. Integrating skills 3. Integrating skills
4. Project 4. Project

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DEFINITION
 01
RECEPTIVE SKILLS
(LISTENING AND READING)
Definition

Receptive skills is
a term used for
reading and
listening skills
where meaning is
extracted from the
discourse.
 02
PRODUCTIVE SKILLS
(SPEAKING and WRITING)
Productive skills is the
term for speaking and
writing skills where
students actually have
to produce language
themselves.
 03
INTERGRATING
SKILLS
Integrating skills is a term used when
skills are not taught in isolation.
 04
PROJECTS
What is it?

A piece of work
involving careful
study of a subject
over a period of
time, done by school
or students
 Input and Output

Mercury Venus Mars

Mercury is the Venus has a Mars is actually
Smallest planet beautiful name a cold place

Jupiter Saturn Neptune

It’s a giant and Saturn is the Neptune is the
the biggest one ringed one farthest planet
METHODOLOGY
 01
RECEPTIVE SKILLS
TOP DOWN

BOTTOM UP
The language
issue
● Pre-teaching

● Extensive
listening/
Solutions reading (Resource:
5.1.4)

● Authenticity
 02
PRODUCTIVE
SKILLS
(SPEAKING and WRITING)
Definition of
Concepts Exam
conte
nt

Mercury Mars
Mercury is the Despite being red,
smallest planet Mars is a cold place

Saturn Venus
It’s composed of Venus is the second
hydrogen and helium planet from the Sun
 • About language tasks
How to give
effective • Specific and related to
feedback? learning goals

• Appropriately challenging

• Entailing active
involvement of the
learner.

• A combination of the
positive and negative
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Strategies to
deal with Discarding
difficulties
●
● Foreignizing
● Improvising
● Paraphrasing

Which ones should

teachers encourage?
The language issue ● Supply key language
BUT: not available for
instant use

● Plan activities in
advance
Ss have a chance to
Solutions absorb new words

● Get around the

language problems
> provoke language use
 03
INTEGRATING
SKILLS
 Receptive and
Why integrated? productive skills feed
off each other

To provide maximum
learning opportunities
 ● Speaking as preparation
How? and stimulus
● Texts as models
● Texts as preparation
and stimulus
● Integrated tasks

Content-based
Instruction
Task-based teaching
 04
PROJECTS
 … a perfect vehicle for
integration
Discuss with the
Ss can watch teammates, debate
videos with other groups, …

Reading Listening Writing Speaking

Ss have to read a lot The nature of

of information before project, or they can
starting their write an analyze
project reviews on others’
project
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Resources

5.1.1. Brown, D. (2007). Teaching by principles: An interactive approach to

language pedagogy (3th Ed.). New York: Pearson Education.

5.1.4. Gower, R., & Walters, S. (1983). Teaching practice handbook. Oxford:

5.1.7. Harmer, J. (2007). How to teach English. England: Pearson Education.

5.1.8. Harmer, J. (2007). The Practice of English language teaching. England:

Pearson Education.