Suggested Activities to Improve Speaking Skill by Yusuf Doğan
Language skills are composed of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Listening and reading are categorized as “receptive”, speaking and writing are
categorized as “productive” skills. Listening from receptive skills and speaking from
productive skills are acquired earlier than other language skills. Thus, children are
predominantly taught on reading [...]
Incidental Learning
Incidental vocabulary learning occurs all of the time when we read. Based on the way a word is used in a text we are able to determine its meaning. Consider this example: “Megan’s fluxoolingy hair reached all the way down to her knees”. While you may not know the word “fluxoolingy” you could determine [...]
For many years reading and writing were (and sometimes still are) taught separately.Over the last ten years research has shown that reading and writing are more interdependent than we thought. The relationship between reading and writing is a bit like that of the chicken and egg.A child’s literacy development is dependent on this interconnection between [...]
