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This unit covers the two receptive skills which are reading and listening and how to create motives for our students to be interested in learning materials.
People normally read and listen for a purpose or for entertainment by eyes, ears and even mind to understand the true meaning of the context. In order to understand the context correctly, readers and listeners should have the following skills: predictive, scanning for specific information, skimming for general idea, detailed information and deduction from context.
Students often have problems with sentence length, word length and unfamiliar words. They normally face with more difficulties in listening than reading because the text is not captured and they have no time to think about the language as they hear it only once. We can help our students by pre-teach some of the essential words and let students access other unknown language. In addition, we can select types of text carefully by choosing non-authentic texts for beginner and intermediate learners so that they can access to materials that contain language more suited to their abilities.
Based on the unit content, in order to create effective learning and student motives, we should know our students' interests or generate the interest for them by applying Engage stage activities such as discussing the topic, showing pictures, predicting what the text will be about, etc. Students will possibly read and listen with enthusiasm if they are motivated and engaged in the tasks. It is also important that we can supply a variety of topics, over a period of time, to cater for all interests.
