Topic 1: Language, macro skills and communicative competence

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primarily a human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions, and desires through a system of voluntarily produced symbols. (Sapir)

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Language

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goes beyond just describing real situations, for it primarily aims to form the components of culture.

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Language

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in its widest sense, means the total of such signs of our thoughts and feelings as are capable of external perception and as could be produced and repeated at will.

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Language

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As future language teachers, we need to facilitate the development of _____

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5 Macroskills

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What are the 5 Macroskills?

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Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, and Viewing.

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prerequisite to understanding.

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Listening

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It is the skill of grasping and decoding information during the exchange of messages.

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Listening

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the beginning of understanding and a valuable key to effective communication. It is the task of getting the meaning of what is being heard.

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Listening

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Give the 10 steps to effective listening

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1. Look at the speaker in the face and the eyes.
2. Focus and give attention but relax.
3. Be open-minded.
4. Listen and picture what the speaker is saying
5. Don’t speak while the person is talking.
6. When the speaker pauses, you may ask clarifying questions.
7. Ask relevant question.
8. Put yourself in the speaker’s place
9. Give feedback.
10. Focus as well to nonverbal cues.

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ability that makes us superior to other species.

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Speaking

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It is a complex cognitive and linguistic skill that involves words and sounds.

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Listening

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seen in social conversations.

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Interaction

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happens when someone wants to cut across a message.There is an act to be dine after the message is received

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Transaction

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when an audience accepts the message spoken.

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Performance

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a multifaceted process involving word recognition, comprehension, fluency, and motivation. Learn how readers integrate these facets to make meaning from print.

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Reading

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Identify the words in print

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Recognition

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Construct an understanding from them

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Comprehension

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Coordinate identifying words and making meaning so that reading is automatic and accurate

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Fluency

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reading aloud. It improves word identification, learns to correct and detect errors, improves proper pronunciation.

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Oral reading

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Practicing specific reading strategies. Ex: linguistics, context

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Intensive

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reading for pleasure or reading technical, scientific or professional material. Ex: skimming, scanning, global.

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Extensive

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another macroskills that entails control of language variables since it is an extremely complex cognitive activity.

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Writing

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What are the steps on writing?

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1. Decide the topic.
2. Research and collect information.
3. Outline and Plan
4. Start writing by a simple draft.
5. Review, edit and Format.

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allow students to pause and reflect, and think about the images they are seeing, and analyze or evaluate further these visuals for better use.

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Viewing

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It includes giving meaning to the images or visuals and even with computer programs and websites which have printed and spoken words.

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Viewing

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the ability to learn visually by thinking and solving problems presented in visual domain.

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Viewing

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Skills to decipher the meaning from visuals

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Visual Literacy

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Skills to decipher the meaning from visuals (Georgis, 1999) Skill to understand and evaluate information from visuals.

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Critical Viewing

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Ability to create visuals to convey effectively the ideas in mind

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Visual Literacy

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Ability to analyze the composition of the picture.

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Critical Viewing

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Refers to the knowledge one has on morphology, phonology, syntax, including how and when to use these appropriately in utterances.

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Communicative Competence

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It is the proper and efficient communication flow and the skill to utilize and acclimate this expertise in different situations.

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Communicative Competence

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As teachers, we provide activities for students that push them to use language in a communicative context.

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CP or communication principle

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Teachers provide real-life activities to complete or do. In so doing, they learn and gain communicative competence.

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TP or task principle

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Teachers must carefully choose authentic and engaging activities that create meaning for students for learning to take place and endure.

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MP or meaningful principle

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Understanding and using:

• vocabulary
• language conventions (e.g., grammar, punctuation, spelling)
• syntax (e.g., sentence structure

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Linguistic Competence

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Using techniques to:

• overcome language gaps
• plan and assess the effectiveness of communication
• achieve conversational and written fluency
• modify text for audience and purpose

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Strategic competence

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Having awareness of:

• social rules of language (e.g., formality, politeness, directness)
• nonverbal behaviours
• cultural references (e.g., idioms, expressions, background knowledge)

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Socio-linguistic competence

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Understanding how ideas are connected through:

• patterns of organization (e.g., ideas can be organized sequentially, by importance, by comparing and contrasting)
• conjunctions (and, or, because)
• transition words (first, next, also, however, for instance, therefore, etc.)

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Discourse competence

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The ability to understand and use language effectively to communicate in a wide variety of contexts and for a variety of purposes.

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Communicative Competence