Reading
Reading and listening
What are the two main receptive language skills?
A receptive skill
Is listening a receptive or productive skill?
A productive skill.
Is speaking a receptive or productive skill?
Reading quickly to understand the main idea or general meaning of a text
What is skimming?
Listening to understand the general or main idea rather than every detail
What is listening for gist?
The ability to communicate smoothly and meaningfully without excessive hesitation.
What is fluency?
Scanning means reading quickly to find specific information, for example a date, name, price, or keyword
What is scanning? Give one example of when we use it
Gist focuses on the overall meaning; listening for specific information focuses on particular details such as names, numbers, places, or facts.
What is the difference between listening for gist and listening for specific information?
Understanding main ideas, text organization, and inferencing rather than word-by-word decoding
A learner understands every individual word but cannot identify the writer’s main argument. Which reading skill needs development?
Teach them to tolerate unknown vocabulary, use context, predict meaning, and continue listening for the main message.
Students panic when they hear one unknown word in an audio recording. What strategy should a teacher develop?
Example: predict from the title; answer comprehension or inference questions while reading; discuss or summarize the article afterwards
Design one pre-reading, one while-reading, and one post-reading activity for a short article
Pre-listening: activate knowledge/predict. While-listening: gist first, then details. Post-listening: discuss, summarize, respond, or extend the topic.
Give a three-stage listening lesson sequence.
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