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This unit touched on how to improve/teach reading and listening skills (receptive skills). Of the two, I believe listening is the harder one to teach because the student is entirely responsible for using the skill. I learned that there are different types of receptive skills. For example, scanning and reading/listening for a purpose. Choosing authentic reading material for students is tricky because students are at different levels and there may be difficult vocabulary in an authentic text. In this situation, it is best to pre-teach the meaning of terms that ma give students trouble. It was also touched on that as teachers, we need not explain every single word, but try to equip students with the skills to try and understand the main idea than trying to understand each word. If they single out words, they may end up stuck on the unknown term, and then get frustrated.
