Topic 1: Language, macro skills and communicative competence Flashcards
primarily a human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions, and desires through a system of voluntarily produced symbols. (Sapir)
Language
goes beyond just describing real situations, for it primarily aims to form the components of culture.
Language
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.
Language
As future language teachers, we need to facilitate the development of _____
5 Macroskills
What are the 5 Macroskills?
Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, and Viewing.
prerequisite to understanding.
Listening
It is the skill of grasping and decoding information during the exchange of messages.
Listening
the beginning of understanding and a valuable key to effective communication. It is the task of getting the meaning of what is being heard.
Listening
Give the 10 steps to effective listening
- Look at the speaker in the face and the eyes.
- Focus and give attention but relax.
- Be open-minded.
- Listen and picture what the speaker is saying
- Don’t speak while the person is talking.
- When the speaker pauses, you may ask clarifying questions.
- Ask relevant question.
- Put yourself in the speaker’s place
- Give feedback.
- Focus as well to nonverbal cues.
ability that makes us superior to other species.
Speaking
It is a complex cognitive and linguistic skill that involves words and sounds.
Listening
seen in social conversations.
Interaction
happens when someone wants to cut across a message.There is an act to be dine after the message is received
Transaction
when an audience accepts the message spoken.
Performance
a multifaceted process involving word recognition, comprehension, fluency, and motivation. Learn how readers integrate these facets to make meaning from print.
Reading
Identify the words in print
Recognition
Construct an understanding from them
Comprehension
Coordinate identifying words and making meaning so that reading is automatic and accurate
Fluency
reading aloud. It improves word identification, learns to correct and detect errors, improves proper pronunciation.
Oral reading
Practicing specific reading strategies. Ex: linguistics, context
Intensive
reading for pleasure or reading technical, scientific or professional material. Ex: skimming, scanning, global.
Extensive
another macroskills that entails control of language variables since it is an extremely complex cognitive activity.
Writing
What are the steps on writing?
- Decide the topic.
- Research and collect information.
- Outline and Plan
- Start writing by a simple draft.
- Review, edit and Format.
allow students to pause and reflect, and think about the images they are seeing, and analyze or evaluate further these visuals for better use.
Viewing