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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Seoul and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: S. P. – U.S.A. said: In this unit, I reviewed some important information regarding the receptive skills of reading and listening. The different specialist skills for reading and listening successfully include: predictive skills (that is, predicting the content of a written work based on a headline, etc.); scanning for specific information; skimming for the general idea; reading and listening in a detailed way in order to gather all detailed information; and deducing the meaning of phrases or words from the context...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL mira Bhayandar and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: C.C. – U.S. said: Reading and listening are called receptive skills because they deal with receiving information in a language. Both are important. If you don't listen to speech, you can't reproduce it properly, and if you don't read words you can't write them properly. Comprehension is also important. One can employ a number of specialist skills in this endeavor. Predicting, scanning, skimming, detailed listening, and deductive listening or reading. All of these allow a receptive person to acquire...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Germany Wolfsburg and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This chapter provided a detailed analysis of what reading and listening skills can entail. While both are equally important, it is easier for learners to experience difficulty with listening because the language isn’t ‘captured’ and they have to deduce meaning very quickly after only listening to it once. I also learnt that when teaching these receptive skills, generating interest regarding the topic discussed is very important. Selection of texts is also very...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs China Ruzhou and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Any language has four basic skills. Two of those skills are receptive. These receptive skills include listening and reading. There are two ways to use receptive skills. These include for purpose and for entertainment. Additionally, there are different ways to use receptive skills. Specialist skills associated with reading include predictive skills, scanning for specific information, skimming the text to try and obtain a general idea of the work, reading to understand everything in detail, and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Saga and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Unit 11 covered the teaching of receptive skills. Receptive skills are reading and listening. While productive skills are speaking and writing. The unit covered the specialist skills that readers and listeners use when reading or listening and in turn how much they will understand depends on their expertise in these areas. The specialist skills were; predictive skills, specific information (scanning), general idea (skimming), detailed information and deduction from context. Another focal point of...  [Read more]

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