MACRO SKILLS: Teaching and Assessment

First Edition

Maria Morena E. de la Peña

Doctor of Philosophy in English

Teaching and Assessment of the Macro Skills i

MACRO SKILLS: Teaching and
Assessment

Teaching and Assessment of the Macro Skills ii

Part I. The Teaching of Macro
Skills

Part II. The Assessment of Macro

Skills

Teaching and Assessment of the Macro Skills iii

FOREWORD

The evolution of language placed a barrier between and among

interlocutors (listeners, speakers, readers, and writers). With this fact, there
is a great need for advanced learning to avoid inaccuracy on either the giving
or receiving end. In order to meet this need, the learners should be fully
equipped with the skills and trainings required for effective communication.

Language programs or language teachers in particular aim to develop

the macro skills of the learners. Hence, many approaches have been proposed
in teaching these skills. Macro skills, which can be broken into a variety of
micro skills, refer to the major skills such as listening, speaking, reading, and
writing.

This module is arranged to meet the special needs of language teachers

and learners specializing English. It consists of text for study; shop talk for
discussion; practice for exercises; and assignments for homework.

By looking ahead in the module, a learner may anticipate homework

assignments and save articles he may use later in the course. It is of special
advantage to teachers to save lecture and practice materials as well as to
preserve a scrapbook or otherwise data for use when the course is repeated.

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Objectives:
Upon completion of this module, the students should have attained the
following:

1. understand the nature of the four macro skills (listening, speaking,

reading, and writing);
2. know the steps to better listening, speaking, reading, and writing while
overcoming the barriers;
3. implement the correct sequence of instructional strategies for the four
macro skills; and
4. read with comprehension, correct pronunciation, and intonation.

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