Concept of language skills:
There are four skills of language
- listening,
- speaking,
- reading and
- writing.
Listening Skills
One of four language skills
Involves sender, message and a receiver.
It is a psychological process and it involves
- Receiving message
- Constructing meaning from it
- Responding to (spoken/non-verbal) messages.
Process of listening:-
(a) Hearing:-
- It is sound waves simulating the sensory receptors of ears.
- It is a physical response.
- Hearing is the perception of sound waves, you must hear to listen but you need not listen to hear.
- Brain screams stimuli and permits only a select few to come into focus and these selective perceptions are known as attention.
- Attention is an important requirement for effective listening.
(b) Understanding:
- Understanding is taking out the meaning from previous associations and successful interpretation of the message being received.
- For successful interpersonal communication, the listener must understand the intended meaning and context assumed by the sender.
(C) Remembering:
- Remembering or memorizing is an import part of the process of listening.
- It means the individual who is receiving the message has received the message, interpreted
- It and added it to the mind’s storage bank.
- While listening our attention might be selective so what we rambler might be quite different from what was originally Sean or heard.
(d) Evaluating:-
- Only active listeners participate at this stage of listening.
- In this step active listeners
- Weight evidence
- Sort out facts from opinion
- Determines the presence and absence of bias in the message.
- The listener should start evaluating message only after listening to the message, not at the beginning of the message.
(e) Responding:-
- In this step individual receiving the message sends verbal or non-verbal feedback to the speaker (or sender)
- This step allows the speaker to determine if a message has been received or not.
- Through feedback, the sender may determine the degree of success in transmitting the message.
Speaking Skills
- The main goat of teaching speaking skills is to achieve efficiency in communication.
- Learners should be able to make themselves understand, using their current level of proficiency.
- They should try to avoid confusion in the message due to wrong pronunciation, grammar or vocabulary.
- Teachers can help learners develop their speaking skills by wing balanced activities that combine language input, structured and communicative output.
- Language input comes from teacher talk, listening, reading passages and language heard or read outside the class.
Reading Skills
- Reading is the most challenging skill to be introduced to children.
- It is the most difficult and exciting skill to introduce.
- Reading is not a simple skill as it involves a combination of many skills and cognitive abilities.
- There is no single, foolproof method of teaching how to read, as every method has its own limitations.
- Once a child has been introduced to reading books successfully there is no end to what a child can accomplish.
- ‘Sound reading skills’ means the child is able to associate meaning with written or printed language:
- Unless a child can make sense of what he or she reads, or relate it to something else that he already knows, we cannot call its reading sound.
- In a nutshell, we can say that Reading is a process of finding written words.
Writing Skills
- We mainly write to communicate with someone when often he is not present in front of us.
- We do a lot of writing simply to preserve something i.e., a piece of information, an idea, or a memory.
- A teacher introduces young children to how to write as, by the time they start schooling for the first time, they are already capable of talking with confidence with a variety of people on various topics.
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