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This unit is about the receptive skills. They are, reading and listening.There are two basic reasons why we read. For a purpose and for entertainment.
There are five special skills for reading and listening. Predictive,skimming, scanning, detailed information and deduction from context.
Problems associated with reading and listening arise from language. Sentence length, word length,and a number of unfamiliar words can also present problems to learners of English.
But there are ways of approaching language difficulty namely; pre-teaching vocabulary, careful selection of texts, choosing a variety of topics, creating interest and, choosing the tasks carefully.
I have learnt that all skills are equally important.
I have learnt that my mind must not only be able to recognize and understand the words but also, be able to grasp their overall meaning from a pre-exsisting knowledge of the world.
I have learnt that I should provide comprehension tasks that promote understanding as opposed to just checking understanding.
