PRODUCTIVE SKILLS “Productive skills” is the term for speaking and writing‚ skills where students actually have to produce language themselves. Although the productive skills of writing and speaking are different in many ways‚ we can still provide a basic model for teaching and organizing them. I. A basic methodological model for teaching productive skills A key factor in the success of productive-skill task is the way teachers organize them and how they respond to the students’ work
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Language Skills Assignment Section 1: Choice of authentic text The authentic text chosen is “Eight ways to work out at work”. It was published by our local Star newspaper on 8 April’13. It is also available online (please refer to Appendix 1‚ page 2 for the text). The choice of the authentic text was based on the following: From a learner perspective: 1. Connection to own life/situation: The text is of an interesting subject matter which learners can connect to as many of them use computers
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17/05/10 Cambridge ESOL CELTA Written Assignment 1 Language Skills Assignment PART 1 For the purpose of English language teaching‚ teachers tend to refer to four particular skills- reading‚ writing‚ speaking and listening. (Harmer‚ 2007) Reading and listening are known as receptive skills. Both of these processes require meaning to be derived from material that is being listened to or read. Speaking and writing are known as productive skills. In the case of both of these processes language
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CELTA assignment 1: LRST 1. TEXT AND RATIONALE: The text I am selecting is a description of a clown who works in a circus‚ and a description of his everyday life. I chose this text for the following reasons: -INTEREST: Recent research has indicated that how interesting a text is will affect students’ cognitive performance. This kind of "interestingness‚" or text-based interest‚ was the focus of the study […] a content analysis performed on the recall protocols showed that the interest-evoking
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Written Assignment Three: Skills Related Tasks Candidate name: Date: Assessment criteria: a correctly using terminology that relates to language skills and sub-skills b relating task design to language skills practice c accessing reference materials and referencing information about language skills to an appropriate source d using written language that is clear‚ accurate and appropriate to the task Tutor comments: Pass Resubmit
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ASSIGNMENT TWO: LANGUAGE RELATED TASKS 1) I’M MOVING OUT OF MY APARTMENT. Look at the sentence and then tick the statements which have the same form and meaning as the part which is underlined. She’s having her hair cut at 3 o’clock this afternoon Abdullah’s working in Qatar at the moment We’re picking him up from the airport at 11pm. Josie’s always worrying about something. Tick the statements/ concept questions which apply to the part of the sentence underlined in (1) It’s talking about
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Reasons to develop a methodology to teach productive skills 1. To have ready our activities‚ time and material. In this way we prepare ourselves too. Not just the students study and learn at the moment they see a lesson‚ also the teacher does. So if we prepare our material‚ the students and us can be clear‚ fluent‚ and can have effective communication of ideas. 2. To create a skill in order to accomplish a task. When we learn a second language‚ we learn to communicate with other people. This
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scanning and detailed reading. As such‚ tasks can be designed with enough variety as to encourage them to practice and use different reading strategies (Ur‚ 2013‚ p149). It is hoped that these tasks will allow students to practice using top down reading skills in the English language just as they naturally do when reading in their own native language. PRE-TASK In response to this‚ to get the students oriented to the subject matter‚ we get students thinking about things they can do for free. The lesson would
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CELTA-June 2013 Assignment 3: Skills-Related Part1: Justification of material choice For this Skills-related assignment‚ my choice of authentic reading material is “Few Places with Better Stories”. from Asian Geographic magazine (no 78 issue 1/2011‚ pages 30 and 35). As this magazine is widely read and it is also a popular TV channel‚ the students will be able to relate to it easily. I decided to use this article as I think it is appropriate for English Language learners at the Intermediate level
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(someone who sees or looks at something or someone) will be given as text written on the WB. This will ensure students are able to discuss and predict in a meaningful way. 1st Reading Task The purpose of the first reading task is to develop the sub skill of reading for gist or skimming. The students will be given the full text and asked to read quickly and choose the most appropriate summary of the text as outlined on the handout sheet. They will be given a five minute limit for reading and to peer
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