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    The four main language skills are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. These skills are generally acquired in the order of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. While developing all four skills is ideal, it is possible to learn a language and achieve communication goals by focusing on one or two skills, such as listening comprehension or writing, depending on the individual's needs and the target language.

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    Module: Study Skills

    Grade: First year

    Skills of Language Learning (LSRW)

    Discussion:
    Q1: What are the main skills of language learning?
    Q2: How can you organise them in the context of first language acquisition?
    Q3: As a language learner, do you need to develop all the skills? Explain
    Q4: Which of the four language skills is most important to you?
    Introduction:
    The skills of language are a set of capabilities that allow an individual to comprehend and
    produce spoken language for proper and effective interpersonal communication; these skills
    are: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
    In the context of first language acquisition, these skills are acquired in this order; they are
    often called LSRW skills. They can be divided into two categories:
    1- Receptive/Passive (listening, reading)
    2- Productive/Active (speaking, writing)
    According to SIL International1 the four basic skills are related to each other by two
    parameters:
    1- The mode communication: oral or written
    2- The direction of communication: receiving or producing the message

    Oral Written
    Receptive Listening Reading
    Productive Speaking Writing

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    SIL International : Summer Institute of Linguistics

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    I- Receptive Skills: are listening and reading, often called passive skills because
    learners do not need to produce language, they just receive it in form of sound or
    text and decipher it.
    1- Listening: is the first language skill we acquire in our native language, it is
    the receptive skill in the oral mode. Listening means understanding what we
    hear; we usually find two situations in listening: interactive listening and non-
    interactive listening.
    The interactive listening is when we have chance to ask question for
    clarification from our partner, it can be face-to-face conversation and
    conversation by phone or call.
    The non-interactive listening place us as passive listener, for example listening
    to the radio, TV, film, or anything else that we have no chance to ask for
    clarification.
    2- Reading: is the third language skill we acquire in our native language, is
    receptive skill in the written mode. Here we get information from written form.
    In the reading skills, learner sees the item in the written form and understands
    it.
    Unlike listening, reading is one of the two artificial language skills, as not all
    natural spoken languages have a written system
    II- Productive Skills: are speaking and writing, often called active skills, they are
    called productive because learners produce language in form spoken language or
    speech or written form.
    1- Speaking: is the second language skill we acquire in our native language, it
    is a productive skill in the oral mode, here we produce sound from mouth
    (vocal tract) and that sound must be understandable. In speaking skill there are
    three speaking situation:
    Interactive speaking includes face to face and telephone call conversation.
    Partially interactive situations such as giving a speech in front of audience.
    Non-interactive speaking such as when recording a speech.
    2- Writing: is the fourth language skill we may acquire in our native language,
    is a productive skill in written mode. Writing skill is a complicated skill, even
    for native speakers of language. Writing skill does not only present speech or

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    idea, but develop and present that speech or idea in the written form of the item
    and in a structured way.

    Discussion:

    Q: If you want to learn a foreign language, do you need to master all the four skills?

    The answer: Both answers are correct YES and NO

    YES:

    You should learn all the four skills if you want to have full access to the language as native
    speakers do.

    Listening will help you to comprehend natives when they talk, listen to the radio, and watch
    movies and online videos with no need to subtitling.

    Speaking will help you to engage natives in conversation and address audiences

    Reading will help you to read newspapers, books, and magazines; it will help you also to
    interpret country signs, alerts and notice and read novels, books, articles in the targeted
    language

    Writing will help you to compose personal emails, letters and text message; as well as to write
    articles, essays, books or any form of texts.

    NO:

    There are two possibilities in which you may not need to develop all the four skills:

    1- Your target language does not allow all the four skills: due to historical circumstances,
    certain languages lack the basic conditions that allow learners to effectively develop
    all the language skills:
    a- Learning a language without a writing system: in this case you will be unable to
    learn to read or write that language eg: The Shoshone language , Nahuatl
    Note: according to ethnologue, out of 7099 languages alive today, only 3866 have
    an equivalent writing system

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    b- Learning an extinct or dead language like Latin or Ancient Greek, you cannot
    learn to speak or listen to them as they were originally spoken as there are no
    native speakers alive today.
    2- Your goals do not require all the four skills: depending on what you wish to
    accomplish with your target language, you may need to learn just one or two of the
    skills rather than all of them. For example:
    a- Those who want to understand spoken language can learn through listening to
    native speakers( directly or via radios and audios)
    b- Those who want to speak languages with complex writing systems can avoid the
    need to read and write by relying only on Romanization.
    c- Those who want to read literature of a specific language can practice through
    books and vocabulary lists.
    d- Those who want to write in foreign language can just practice making and
    imitating the symbols.

    Assignment:

    Q1: We learn language by ear as small children. But is it more difficult as an adult? If so,
    how do you mitigate that?

    Q2: What are the particular challenges of learning a language that isn’t written down?

    Q3: write a short paragraph discussing your own way (as a language learner) to develop y
    our receptive and productive skills.

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