In language teaching,receptive skillsare those skills where meaning is extracted from spoken or written discourse. These skills arelisteningandreading, respectively. Productive skills The productive skills, on the other hand, refer to the skills where the students are invited to produce language in wr...
Authenticity Authentic material is language where no concessions are made to foreign speakers. This is what our students encounter in real life if they come into contact with target-language speakers. Deciding what is authentic is not easy: a stage play written for native speakers & “baby talk...
1. Talk about universal examples of the response you want them to have. Tell themstories of how people found optimismin the direst of circumstances. Talk about the determination involved in everyday life, emphasizing how even coming to see a therapist takes a real determination to make a chang...