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In this unit I learned about teaching receptive skills. The two types of receptive skills are reading and listening. There are two reasons for reading and listening: for a purpose (such as reading instructions for a new oven) and for entertainment (such as reading a fiction novel). Learning how to read and listen in any language is used by sight and sound, but also using our minds to process our understanding of what is being read or said.
When teaching a new language it is best to create interest for the student by choosing topics that interest them, thus creating an atmosphere that the students are more eager to read and listen. From there, the teacher can provide comprehension tasks to promote understanding, instead of just checking understanding from the students. Also, pre-teaching the difficult/ unknown vocabulary (done before starting a reading or listening activity) to the students is important to create a better understanding of the given context and cause less confusion.
