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This unit covered two productive skills, speaking and writing. We learned that writing is one of the most neglected skills when teaching English. I can understand this as speaking and listening are more engaging to students, and overall people are more concerned with communicating than having issues writing. Speaking is much easier to correct because it can be fixed on the spot whereas writing needs to be corrected afterwards. In Japan, the core teaching of English in primary school is the classical method, only reading and writing. It is very common for me to meet people who can read English quite well but can't even speak basic phrases even after studying English for many years. I think that many students are uncomfortable speaking English due to the reasons listed in this chapter, lack of confidence, fear of mistakes, ect. It is very uncomfortable to speak a language you don't fully understand. Speaking activities have to be designed to make students comfortable and not feel singled out. As a newer teacher, I can see how writing may be tough to teach to all levels of student. I plan on studying more examples of writing activities in the future.
