‘Task sheet: LAAL674 Integrated Langu
Introduction: Concepts and Principles 0
Teaching Language Skills
Answer these questions:
1. How are receptive and productive skills related?
2. Give examples of how language skills can be integrated within a lesson?
3. What is language construction?
4. Explain how you understand the examples of teaching stages in 17.1.4.
5. How is the idea of top-down and bottom-up related to the learners’ proficiency levels?
6. Compare the procedure of teaching receptive skills and the procedure for teaching
productive skills.
7. List information and ideas learnt from section 17.4.
Teaching Language through Discourse
Read the chapter and answer the question: How can language teachers use a discourse
perspective to organize and facilitate their students’ language learning?