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1. TEACHING PRODUCTIVE SKILLS
Chapter 17

2. A. PRODUCTIVE SKILLS
Productive skills are speaking and writing,
because learners doing these need to produce
language.
A1. Structuring discourse :
- Speaking (use lexical phrases)
- Writing (coherent and cohesive)

3. A2. Following the rules :
- Sociocultural rules
- Turn Taking
- Rules for writing
A3. Different styles, different genres :
- Distance : well formed
- Closeness : spontanity
Language production :
- Writing like : essays, formal articles
- Speaking like : ads, e-mail writing

4. A4. Interacting with an audience :
Make the communication as informative as
required. Place it or suit it in participants interaction
behave.
A5. Dealing with difficulty :
- Improvising
- Discarding
- Foreignising
- Paraphrasing

5. B. PRODUCTIVE SKILLS IN THE CLASSROOM
B1. Reception and Production
- Output and input
- Texts as models
- Texts as stimuli
- Reception as part of production
- Production enables reception

6. C. PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
There are number of reasons why students find
language production difficult, especially with tasks.
Tips :
- match the tasks with the students language level
- ensure that there is a purpose to the task
- do not expect instant fluency and creativity

7. C1. Language
There are number of steps which will help
students to achieve success :
- Supply key language (before we ask students to
take part in a spoken or written activity, we may
check their knowledge of vocabulary)
- Plan activities in advance (plan production activities
that will provoke their use of language)

8. C2. Topic and genre
These are number of ways which can help
students to invest their language production :
- Choose interesting topics
- Create interest in topics
- Activate schemata
- Vary topics and genre
- Provide necessary information