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Applied Linguistics Assignment

The document discusses productive and receptive language skills. Productive skills include speaking and writing, while receptive skills are reading and listening. It provides examples of speaking activities like controlled, guided, and creative exercises. It also discusses sub-skills for writing like handwriting, spelling, and punctuation. The document recommends engaging learners, pre-teaching vocabulary, and using games to practice the four core language skills of speaking, writing, listening, and reading. Teachers should aim to balance all skills in an integrated approach.

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Applied Linguistics Assignment

The document discusses productive and receptive language skills. Productive skills include speaking and writing, while receptive skills are reading and listening. It provides examples of speaking activities like controlled, guided, and creative exercises. It also discusses sub-skills for writing like handwriting, spelling, and punctuation. The document recommends engaging learners, pre-teaching vocabulary, and using games to practice the four core language skills of speaking, writing, listening, and reading. Teachers should aim to balance all skills in an integrated approach.

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First Video (Productive and Receptive Skills)

I. Productive and Require Skills

A. Productive Skills

1. Speaking

2. Writing

B. Receptive Skills

1. Reading

2. Listening

A. Speaking Skills Lesson

- We shouldn’t know first the idea of Accuracy and Fluency.

Accuracy – It is the correct usage of grammar.

Fluency – The ability to speak without stopping to think.

o Speaking activities comes in different forms but we have to categorized the three basic types:
1. Controlled Activity – The teacher helps the student in terms what they need to say.
2. Guided Activity – It can be used either the study or in the activate phase.
3. Creative Activity – It used in the activate phase. You give scenario and the student will answer.

Why we need to speak?

 Need or desire to speak


 Make sure they have the language knowledge
 Use pairs in your activities to allow interaction and reduce stress

Before the lesson

 Students must be engaged to the topic/lesson, ask them for example the weather on their place.

Study Phase

 Pre- teach (useful vocabulary, grammar)


 Do some activities and demonstrate those activity before the materials.

Main Speaking Activity (Activate)

 The speaker said that the student should form pairs and each pair has a card. Write the country
and month then create a forecast for the country. Through that we allow the student to speak.

o Writing Skills
- Speaking and writing has its similarities; some differences.

Sub-skills in Writing

1. Handwriting

2. Spelling

3. Punctuation

Typical – Writing Lesson (Straight arrow ESA)

 Same as in speaking should also engage our learners to our topic/lesson.

Study Phase

 The speaker’s idea in this phase is to show them the idea of cartoon strip to answer.
 We need to demonstrate, elicit correct answers before giving materials to them.

Activate Phase

 Another activity for them to answer.

B. Why we need to listen?

 For entertainment
 For a purpose.

Sub-Skills in Reading and Listening Skills

1. Detailed reading – It shows different examples.

2. Scanning – We look for specific information.

3. Skimming – We get the general overview of what the text was actually saying.

4. Prediction – What we think will happen next.

5. Deduction – From the information given can we make some differences.

Potential Problems

 Reading
1. Reading word for word
2. Sentence length
3. Structure
 Listening
1. Flow of information
2. Speed of speech
3. Accent

(One thing we can do is to think ways to avoid those problems)

Solutions
1. Pre-teach vocabulary and grammar

2. Careful selection of texts

3. Choice of topic

4. Create interest before you start

The use of games in the classroom

- We should use a game that has a rule, a teaching point and an element of fun such as scrabble,
monopoly, tic-tac-toe and Jeopardy.

Second Video “How to Study English: Four Core English Skills”


I. The Four Language Skills (Four Core English Skills)

1. Productive (Output)

 Speaking
 Writing

2. Receptive (Input)

 Listening
 Reading

II. Integrated Skills Approach

1. Teacher must do activities that learners can practice their four core English skills.

2. Self-Study

III. Voice of America

 A good website to practice your listening and reading skills.

IV. Balance the skills

1. Speaking

2. Writing

3. Listening

4. Reading

 Balance the skills, You must study all of four core English skills.

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