How far the four basic language skills are effective in improving foreign language learning? Your invaluable comments and recommendations are invited for enhancing our mutual knowledge of the language learning process.
Hi, Tariq,
I believe that the four skills play a key role in the learning process. Therefore, I would focus on teaching-learning methods.
I hope this article will be useful to you: Banditvilai, C. (2016). Enhancing Students' Language Skills through Blended Learning. Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 14(3), 220-229: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1107134.pdf.
They certainly help to internationalize the Higher Ed Curriculum. When we have faculty who speak these languages it makes the learning environment more diverse in accommodating for the growing diversity, both culturally and internationally, in today's HE classroom (F2F & online).
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The four language skills are inseparable, they go hand in hand. The skills are prompted whenever there is need to learn a foreign language and they also help to internalize the foreign language.
The four language skills are all necessary to learn a foreign language. However, some skills such as speaking might not always be possible due to lack of speakers of the foreign language. Therefore using other resources such as technology (videos) to compensate for the spoken skill can be advisable so as to expose foreign language learners to the actual model of spoken language for the proper pronunciation if needed.
Dear Cynthia Nomagugu Mazibuko , thanks a lot for your incisive uptake, best.
Hello, Tariq,
It is individual. What I have noticed from my personal experience in learning and teaching languages: for someone listening+speaking is more effective, for someone else it's reading+writing. Anyway, all four skills must be applied in combination, and the communicative situation must be simulated - thus the learner will become more motivated, and the knowledge will be of higher quality.
Prof Tariq,
All the four skills are essential in learning any language acaemically. As a speaker of any language, one should speak and listen with interest to excel n learning the language
The four language skills are very necessary in learning any language but provision of videos where a native speaker or native speakers of the foreign language is spoken is very important in learning a foreign langauge.
Listening to any dialogue or conversation or music becomes one familiar with the language. Reading improves one's vocabulary and cognitive skills. Speaking makes one fluent and writing helps one to encode and decode the message
The four skills are likely to mutually reinforce and develop each other as well as reinforce and develop the vocabulary and grammar we have learned.
By blending four skills, the learners may improve their communication and effective personal skills.
In leaening language both in class and out of class or natural learning need the four skill, aware or unawareness. The four skill, speaking, writing and listening and reading have signifinace influence to the language mastery. Without the four skills, the leaners will difficult to acquire the language that they learn. Need specific approach to get the four skill simultanous in the SLA class
The four language skills make the core of a foreign language learning process. However, their effectiveness is conditioned by transferring passive knowledge into the functional active use of language. This would come as the result of sustained exposure to the language and practice on the part of the learner.
The answer, to this old question, depends largely on how one looks at learning a foreign language. In other words, different models or approaches of language learning have different answers accordingly.
Dear Tariq Khan. I perceive that the four skills are essential goal of language learning itself. They are where all components of language are used, language competence is performed and communicatively assessed. The issue whether the four skills are to be learned integrated with language or learning language before communication practices is the other pedagogical consideration previous to classroom practices.
Both receptive and productive skills are important. When we teach, we focus on all of them to help language learners communicate in the target language. Students need to be exposed to a lot of listening and reading to develop their productive skills. They need to learn a lot of vocabulary and sentence structure to be able to create some sentences. Of course as learners and teacher we integrate all of them.
These four basic language skills are necessary to master to learn a foreign language. In fact, listening helps in speaking and reading helps in writing. these skills boost each other. integration of all these four skills makes communication better and effective.
In my opinion, the four basics skills are effective in their own unique ways depending on the language leaner preference . For sure, ELF or ESL need those skills to acquire their target language but in my own experience between those skills, there is a favourable skill that I prefer.
Without listening you cannot speak anything, without reading you cannot write. That's why four skills are necessary for learning any other language.
All the four skills play an effective role in improving the foreign language learning. Basically we all know, one has to have vocabulary, the grammar rule to write effectively and communicate our thoughts.. But to speak the language we have to hear first, develop the listening skills and then try to speak back. Here the people who cannot read and write are also able to talk effectively and communicate like vegetable vendors and other native speakers.. When we learn a foreign language it involves all the four. Recognizing the sound and attach a meaning to it or visualize it in the mind with a picure is important and it is developed by listening audios. By watching videos of the native speakers may be a day to day life activity, develops the listening skill and understand the same. By learning the scripts and combination of alphabets, words and sentences with a context and the grammar rule allows one to write and speak effectively after learning it theoretically and applying the same. By practically learning and practising the four aspects of the language, one can effectively communicate in a foreign language.. No doubt.
All the four skills are inseparable. They are complementary to each other and necessary for language learning. A successful language teacher is the one who simultaneously takes all these four skills into consideration in his/her classroom context. In the past, reading and listening were regarded as passive skills and the main focus was on active skills such as speaking and writing. In so doing, many teachers take these two skills for granted. After a while it was proverd that these skills are also active and very crucial in learning a language because during these skills the brain is sending signals to different parts of the mind. A child first listens then speaks. So, it shows that they are mutually linked to each other. By the same token, you can not write an article unless you have already read so many papers.
Considering language as a system- that is different related parts working together as a whole , the four language skills are all very important in language learning. However, according to natural order hypothesis, the order of learning them is also very crucial. It is often suggested that we should initially begin language learning by focusing on the receptive skills ( reading and listening ) to develop the platform which is a prerequisite to launching the productive skills of language (speaking and writing).
Though you asked the question some time ago, I will not miss the opportunity to shortly mention that the four language skills can only be developed further with the support of two others: intercultural competences coming with valuable, relevant content, and method competences, aiming at learning techniques and strategies, as a cognitive component.
Golden rule: "You want to write? Read!
You want to speak? Listen!".
No need to go to schools to learn a language. That's why, and according to me: Reading and listening are the most important skills ever.
For the English Language to be taught successfully, these four skills, reading, listening, speaking, and writing should be integrated adequately. These skills should be addressed in a way that helps students meet the standards you set for them and develop their communicative competence gradually.
I am not in favor of teaching the four skills separately. I believe that a collaborative teaching of the skills in an integrated set is more valuable.
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