ENG029 Receptive Communication Skills PDF

ENG029: Receptive Communication Skills What are Receptive Communication Skills? What are receptive skills? When a person learns a language, he or she develops both receptive skills and productive skills. Often, in learning a new language learning happens first through the use of receptive skills (...

ENG029: Receptive Communication Skills What are Receptive Communication Skills? What are receptive skills? When a person learns a language, he or she develops both receptive skills and productive skills. Often, in learning a new language learning happens first through the use of receptive skills (i.e. listening, viewing, reading). Receptive skills are needed to decode the meaning to understand a message. Traditionally, reading and listening have been considered receptive skills. Because of the growth of audiovisual materials since the 1990s, viewing has been incorporated as a receptive skill. Receptive skills are also known as passive skills.  Receptive Skills are INTERACTIVE PROCESSES. It may appear that reading, listening, and viewing are passive skills because of the notion that there is no apparent “movement”/continuous “process” when these are done. The process of constructing meaning is inherent whenever we listen, read, and view.  What is INTERACTION? Interaction involves a continuous process of constructing meaning from and based on the input we receive.  Your EYES are Your BRAIN is Reading is MOVING (Reading and Viewing) WORKING interactive. Saccades= tiny leaps of Bloom’s taxonomy eyes; no real or deep (remember, understand, reading/comprehension apply, analyze, evaluate, Progression= from left to create) right Top- Down View= use of Fixation= Pause previous knowledge to Regression= reverse understand fixation Bottom-Up View= Return Sweep= from end comprehensions if from of line to beginning of the text itself succeeding line Interactive View= comprehension based on prior knowledge and power of text  Listening is interactive. Your ears pick up sounds Your brain ⚬ recognizes sounds and associate these sounds with meanings (i.e. vocabulary) ⚬ uses metacognition skills (i.e. mental strategies) ￭ Examples: Inferring Drawing parallels between English words and Filipino words  Viewing is interactive. Your eyes and ears are at work (picking up images and sounds) Your brain incorporates images and sounds with meanings Same metacognition skills are utilized The Importance of Receptive Skills Exercises attention, memory, concentration Improves use of a language Develops comprehension Facilitates expression Widens vocabulary ENG029: Receptive Communication Skills What are Receptive Communication Skills?