ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 16
[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 16 | August 31, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] Six ways to boost classroom participation: Part Six (OUP Blog) Bridging the gap between receptive and productive competence…
Bridging the gap between receptive and productive competence (Cambridge Conversations)
[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 16 | August 31, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]
Key characteristics
- While learners’ receptive competence continues to develop, their productive competence remains relatively static.
- Language items that learners recognize and understand in the input they hear do not pass into their productive competence.
All language users have greater receptive competence (language they can understand) than productive competence (language they can produce). I can read great novels for example, but I could never write one. Traditionally, in language teaching we recognize this fact in the distinction between active and passive language knowledge, particularly in relation to vocabulary learning, where it is normally assumed that learners should be able to understand far more words than they can use. (more…)
OUP Webinar: Assigning homework and tracking your students’ progress with the Online Practice and Online Workbooks for your course, September 8 & 24
[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 16 | August 31, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]
Find out how to assign homework and track students’ progress with the Online Practice or Online Workbooks for your course at oxfordlearn.com.
The webinar is for teachers using the following courses:
- Aim High
- American English File, second edition
- Business Result
- English File, third edition
- English Plus
- Got it!, second edition
- New Headway, fourth edition
- Headway Academic Skills
- insight
- Navigate
- Network
- Oxford English for Work
- Oxford Online Language Practice
- Oxford Online Skills Program – General English or Academic
- Reach out
- Scope
- Solutions, second edition
- Speak Now
- Stretch