In the world of ELT, when we talk of skills we are generally referring to the four skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening. Even more narrowly, we often divide these into the so-called productive skills (writing and speaking) versus the receptive skills (reading and listening) – however unsatisfactory that separation might seem to be. In reality, these skills are rarely separate, and each can be seen to support the others in some way; yet they are often tested separately, with the result that they are frequently taught separately, too.
This issue of ETp considers all four . . .
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