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Developing Macro Skills in English Language

Macro skills refer to the four main language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. When learning a new language, these skills are usually developed in the order of listening, speaking, reading and finally writing. Each of the four skills involves different cognitive processes and can be developed through various activities like role playing, storytelling, reading aloud and journaling. Mastering these fundamental macro skills is essential for complete communication in any language.

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Developing Macro Skills in English Language

Macro skills refer to the four main language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. When learning a new language, these skills are usually developed in the order of listening, speaking, reading and finally writing. Each of the four skills involves different cognitive processes and can be developed through various activities like role playing, storytelling, reading aloud and journaling. Mastering these fundamental macro skills is essential for complete communication in any language.

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Macro Skills

Macro Skills
 When we learn a language, there are four skills that we
need for complete communication. When we learn our
native language, we usually learn to listen first, then to
speak, then to read, and finally to write. These are called
the four "language skills": also known as "macro skills'

 Macro skills are most commonly referred to listening,


speaking, reading and writing in English language.
TOPIC 1
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WHAT IS LISTENING?
 is the most important skill in communication.

 It is a mental operation involving processing sound waves, interpreting


their meaning, and storing them in memory.

 a communication technique that requires the listener to understand,


interpret and evaluate what he or she hears.
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Listening Strategies
Techniques or activities that contribute directly to the
comprehension and recall of listening input.

Listening strategies can be classified by how the listener


processes the input.
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www.listening.com
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Top-down strategies are


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Bottom-up strategies
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 summarizing.
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You should know that there are different types of listening:
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The following are the activities that


would develop the listening skills of the
students:
Activities
www.listening.com

 Dual dictation
 Class memory quiz
 Listen for lies
TOPIC 1
www.speaking.com

WHAT IS SPEAKING?
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Speaking
 is the delivery of language through the mouth
 to speak, we create sounds using many parts of our
body, including the lungs, vocal tract, vocal chords,
tongue, teeth and lips.
SPEAKING
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www.speaking.com
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Speaking is usually the second language
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skill that we learn.
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 when two or more people speak or talk to
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each other, the conversation is called a
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“dialogue”
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TOPIC 1 TOPIC 2 TOPIC 3
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The following are the activities that


would develop the speaking skills of the
students:
Activities
www.reading.com

 ROLE PLAYING
 STORYTELLING
 REPORTING
 PICTURE DESCRIBING
TOPIC 1
www.reading.com

WHAT IS READING?
It is the process of looking at a series of
written symbols and getting meaning
from them.
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www.reading.com
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Why we need to develop reading skills?

L1 literacy leads to L2 literacy development awareness. Reading itself builds on


oral language levels and key factors that influence (L2) reading skill development
include the ability to comprehend and use both listening and speaking skills
because you need to:

 Hear a word before you can say it


 Say a word before you can read it
 Read a word before you can write it (Linse 2005)
www.reading.com

The following are the activities that


would develop the reading skills of the
students:
Activities
www.reading.com

 Read- Aloud Questions


 Story Sequencing
 Retelling
 Close Reading
 Inferencing
TOPIC 1
www.writing.com

Macro Skills in Writing


In micro aspect, the learners practice specific written forms at
the level of word or sentence (hand writing or typing, spelling,
punctuation). On the other hand, the learners emphasized on
macro aspects of writing which cover on content and
organization of the writing.
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What are the Macro skills of


writing?
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www.writing.com

The following are the activities that


would develop the writing skills of the
students:
Activities
www.writing.com

 Journaling
 Cards and Letters
 Fill in the Story
 Drawing words
 Birthday messages
 Cut out my name
 Write a choose your own adventure
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