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Testing Receptive Skills: Reading and Listening
Testing Receptive Skills: Reading and Listening
SKILLS
READING AND LISTENING
The receptive skills are listening and reading,
because learners do not need to produce
language to do these, they receive and
understand it. These skills are sometimes known
as passive skills. They can be contrasted with
the productive or active skills of speaking and
writing.
When learning a new language learners tend to
develop their receptive skills first and
then acquire productive capability. It’s a
complex relationship between the two as
they all play a supporting role with
developing other skills.
The key difference between reading and listening
is that when learners listen to information, they
have much less support than when they are
working with the written word on the page.
Listening requires ‘real-time’ processing of
language, and once the message has finished,
there is no easy way to go back and check for
meaning, as there is during reading.
HOMOPHONES/HOMONYMS FROM WORD
DOCS LEADS TO AMBIGUITY
LISTENING VS READING
Spoken Language Written Language
Use of weak All text is
forms and equally visible
contractions on the page.
make some There are no
parts hard to strong and weak
perceive; forms;
LISTENING VS READING