topic 3: FOUR LANGUAGE SKILLS
1. INTRO
2. THE FOUR LANGUAGE SKILLS
Main goal (LOMCE/RD126)
Competences RD126/O.65/2105)
C. in linguistic communication
Mathematical c. and basic competences in Science and Technology
Digital C.
Learn to learn
Social and Civic C.
Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship
Cultural awareness and expressions
Contents Blocks
Importance oral/written Andalusia 97/2015
Methodological Recommendations O. 17 March/2015
Objectives
Cuadro N.Mclaren and D.Madrid (2004) "Four skills"
Listening and Speaking. Oral Communication (interaction)
LISTENING
What is?
Why is complex and active process?
Sub-skills involved : Perceptive, language, comprehension, interaction
Why is important? (needed real life, motivation, silent period, input hypothesis, frequency hypothesis)
Didactic considerations: basic points (purpose, motivation, comprehensible input, stress, success oriented act.)
Tasks and activities: Before, While-after, after
Examples; Listen and do, listen and make
SPEAKING
What is?; Stages (cognitive, productive)
Didactic considerations (interaction, input, limitations...)
Procedures:
Acting out ( Functional dialogues, open dialogues, simulations, role-plays, mime-gestures-physical movement, grammar-demonstration dialogues, cultural dialogues, conversation-facilitation dialogues, phonetic dialogues)
Asking and answering questions
Playing with Language
Stages: Early production; Speech emergence; nearly fluent
Reading and Writing (Written comprehension and production)
Comparison between Oral and Written Lang
READING
WRITING
What is?
Sub-skills involved: prediction, skimming, scanning, cohesion, coherence, inference & interpretation
Sub-skills: before, while and after reading
Importance (motivation: intrinsic, extrinsic)
Reasons: why read?, why should practise?
Text selection: adapted, variety, enrich, cultural references, valuable information...
Objectives: silent reading, pace, cope variety, develop techniques...
Functional approach: product, audience, purpose, linguistic focus.
Reasons for teaching it: real life use, comm.comp., oral proficiency
Components: Grammatical, morpho-syntactic; sociolinguistic; discourse
Techniques: focus on process; simple, controlled, guided and free.
3. COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE
Concept
Chomsky 1965: abstract grammatical knowledge Competence
Hymes 1972: Communication and culture Communicative Competence
Subcompetences of Communicative Competence
A. Linguistic
B. Sociolinguistic
C. Discourse
D. Strategic
E. Sociocultural
Grammar
Lexis
Phonetics
Communicative lang. Competences in the CEF
A Linguistic
B. Sociolinguistic
C. Pragmatic
Lexical
Grammatical
Semantic
Phonological
Orthographic
Orthoepic
Discourse
Functional
Design