STARTBODY

Productive and Receptive Skills in the ESL Classroom - Productive Skills Overview

 

This presentation is going to cover the teaching of productive skills. To start with, if we think about the way in which you learnt your first language, most of us go through a particular process. Firstly, we listen to those around us, after that first silent period of listening to other people, then we start to make utterances. Having learned to speak to a certain extent at least, we then go on to learn how to read and to write and this process that we go through is actually covering the four skills that we're trying to teach our English students. So, we have listening, speaking, reading, and writing. If we group those skills into their different types, then the two skills of reading and listening are known as receptive skills, whereas the skills of speaking and writing are known as productive skills. In this session, we're going to focus on the production skills and have a look at how to create a lesson for that.


Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next.

This unit is about the productive skills (speaking and writing) and how to teach them to students. Some example activities, techniques to encourage interaction and games are included with clear explanation and how to use them effectively in the lessons. Once again, a lesson plan structure was on the test questions to make sure if we understand.Verb tenses in English are quite complicated and nuanced. I didn't realize how I used these expressions and I wonder if they are used in practice how they are intended in the rules. Most of these tenses seem interchangeable and fluid, making it possible to say most tenses in various contexts and have the meaning mean essentially the same thing.

ENDBODY