Phase 3- Language skill

David Felipe Durango

Group:

Tutor:

Nacional Open and Distance University

School of sciences
Didactics of English
 Analysis of receptive and productive language skills

Definition of receptive and productive skills

The receptive skill is the ability to successfully read and listen. It is the comprehension of a foreign language thanks

to these abilities. While the productive skill is the person’s ability to speak and write in a foreign language.

It is important to mention these abilities are learnt and need a good learning process.

The order of development of the skills is:

Listening: Listening is an indispensable input, since it is the ability where the learners understand or comprehend the

information given by a speaker in foreign language.

Reading: It is the ability to understand written foreign language texts. When learners develop this ability, they are

able to identify simple facts presented in paragraphs and make judgments about the text’s contents.

Speaking: this ability makes learners speak in a foreign language through interaction which aims to process

information and constructing meanings

Writing: it is the learner’s ability to express written ideas in a foreign language, having in mind, the correct

grammar, spelling, punctuation, and vocabulary.

Link of the webpage with the four chosen virtual didactical activities per skill.

 https://durango031216.wixsite.com/my-site-1

Speaking-Listening
-Writing.pptx
 Activities

Link of the videoconference.

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participation on ESAPEC meeting.
 Conclusions

In conclusion we can say that to have more affinity when learning English, the most important

skill we must develop is Listening as it started, it began to take a lot of prominence at the end of

the 19th century when linguists gave it more importance in language teaching. Bloomfield said

that a student learns a language through listening, then Chomsky brought us the idea that the

teaching of a language should have a natural approach, and in the late 1960s applied linguists

admitted that listening plays a fundamental role in teaching a language. Foreign language. In

1982, Krashen declared that good listening was necessary for learning a foreign language, since

if a student does not understand what he hears, he cannot develop and apply it.
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