Unit IV

Unit four syllabus includes

 Developing English Language Skills -LSRW , Grammar & Vocabulary              

• for understanding the topic ‘Developing Listening skills’ please click here. The article discusses Top-down strategies and Bottom-up strategiesFor types of listening look up materials in the pdf  . Wilga  Rivers analysed various factors relevant to listening Read the article to understand ‘ theoretical concepts basic to listening comprehension’

What are the barriers to listening? The image provides  some barriers. Is there anything else that can be added to the list? Brainstorm  in the link on barriers to listening after reading more articles in the area – https://www.mindmeister.com/774961200?t=PsYRjK7wcL

In a classroom how can the teacher facilitate better listening?

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Read more articles to have a more knowledge  in the area.

How can Listening be taught?

Teaching methods – Casual and Focused listening, Story based method, Task based teaching

• Problems of Teaching Oral Communication, Contexts of Speaking, A natural process of developing Spoken skills through exposure and use specific methods and techniques
• Developing Reading skills, Purpose of Reading, Kinds of Reading- Loud and Silent Reading,
• Classroom approaches to teaching Reading
• Problems in Teaching Writing- The shortest unit of writing – The paragraph
• Types of writing, The functions of writing, The audience or the reader of written texts,
• Three Definitions of Grammar, Methodology of Grammar Teaching,
• Teaching Vocabulary, Types of Vocabulary, Some Techniques for Teaching Vocabulary, Selecting vocabulary & presenting