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English is an important language for communication around the world in areas like business, travel, and society. There are four basic skills needed to effectively learn English: listening, writing, reading, and speaking. Each skill involves complex cognitive processes and interactions between the learner, context, prior knowledge, and the language itself. Listening involves processing sounds into words and sentences. Writing represents language visually through symbol systems. Reading requires decoding symbols based on prior knowledge to understand meanings. Speaking is constructing meanings depending on various interactive contexts. Grammar teaching works best when rules are clearly explained and supported by real-life practice exercises.
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