Receptive and Productive Skills

Question 1

What are receptive skills according to Harmer (2007) ?

Answer 1

Receptive skills are reading and listening. It is where meaning is extracted from the discourse.

Question 2

What are the productive skills according to Harmer (2007)?

Answer 2

Productive skills refer to speaking and writing. It is where students have to produce language themselves.

Question 3

How much time do we spend communicating and how it is distributed?

Answer 3

We spend 70% of the time communicating. 45% listening, 30% speaking, 16% reading and 9% writing.