The document discusses language skills and their importance for communication success. It outlines the four core language skills - listening, speaking, reading, and writing. For each skill, it provides definitions and discusses strategies for improvement, such as listening to audio books and podcasts, practicing conversations, and reducing distractions to strengthen listening abilities. Speaking requires skills to convey thoughts clearly without being misunderstood. There are different types of speaking situations. For reading, components include decoding, comprehension, and retention, while types involve skimming, scanning, intensive and extensive reading. Improving these skills aids effective communication.

1. LANGUAGE SKILLS
Communication skills have a great impact on the success of an individual.
A person’s ability to stand apart in a crowd is more often determined by their proficiency in
English language.
There are four Language skills
1. Listening
2. Speaking
3. Reading
4. Writing

2. LISTENING SPEAKING
READING WRITING
Listening
Listening is the ability to
accurately receive and
interpret messages in the
communication process.
Reading
to receive or take in the sense
of (letters, symbols, etc.)
especially by sight or touch
Speaking
The action of conveying
information or expressing one's
feelings in speech.
Writing
The act of forming letters and
words with a pen or pencil, or
something written.
LANGUAGE SKILLS

3. LISTENING SPEAKING
READING WRITING
Listening
Listening is the ability to
accurately receive and
interpret messages in the
communication process.
Reading
to receive or take in the sense
of (letters, symbols, etc.)
especially by sight or touch
Speaking
The action of conveying
information or expressing one's
feelings in speech.
Writing
The act of forming letters and
words with a pen or pencil, or
something written.
LANGUAGE SKILLS

4. LISTENING SPEAKING
READING WRITING
Listening
Listening is the ability to
accurately receive and
interpret messages in the
communication process.
Reading
to receive or take in the sense
of (letters, symbols, etc.)
especially by sight or touch
Speaking
The action of conveying
information or expressing one's
feelings in speech.
Writing
The act of forming letters and
words with a pen or pencil, or
something written.
LANGUAGE SKILLS

5. LISTENING SPEAKING
READING WRITING
Listening
Listening is the ability to
accurately receive and
interpret messages in the
communication process.
Reading
to receive or take in the sense
of (letters, symbols, etc.)
especially by sight or touch
Speaking
The action of conveying
information or expressing one's
feelings in speech.
Writing
The act of forming letters and
words with a pen or pencil, or
something written.
LANGUAGE SKILLS

6. LISTENING SPEAKING
READING WRITING
Listening
Listening is the ability to
accurately receive and
interpret messages in the
communication process.
Reading
to receive or take in the sense
of (letters, symbols, etc.)
especially by sight or touch
Speaking
The action of conveying
information or expressing one's
feelings in speech.
Writing
The act of forming letters and
words with a pen or pencil, or
something written.
LANGUAGE SKILLS

7. Listening Skills
What is Listening?
Listening is the ability to accurately
receive and interpret messages in the
communication process.
Listening is a receptive skill or a passive
skill.
Listening is Not the Same as Hearing
it requires focus and concentrated effort
to understand the messages

8. Listening Skills
TYPES OF LISTENING
There are five major types of Listening
1. Discriminative
2. Comprehensive
3. Relationship
4. Critical
5. Appreciative

9. Listening Skills
To Improve Listening Skills :
• Listening to Audiobooks and Podcasts
• Having conversations
• Watching English movies
• Reduce Distractions and noise
• Concentrate on what speaker is saying

10. Speaking Skills
What is speaking ?
Speaking:
Speaking is an act of making vocal sounds usually for
purposes of communication, to convey one’s thoughts and feelings in
spoken language.
Speaking Skills:
Skills that give us the ability to communicate effectively.
These skills allow speaker to convey his message in a passionate and
convincing manner
Speaking skills also help assure that one won’t be misunderstood by
those who are listening

11. Speaking Skills
Speaking is a productive skill in the oral mode. It is more
complicated than it seems at first and involves more
than just pronouncing words
There are three kinds of speaking situations
1. Interactive
2. Partially Interactive, and
3. Non-interactive

12. Speaking Skills
• Practice where you can, when you can: any practice is
good whether you speak to native English speaker or
not.
• Build confidence, Use simple sentence structures that
you know is correct
• Don’t speak too fast or too slow
• Intonations and stress words should be given attention
• Participate in more activities
• Practice makes man perfect

13. READING SKILLS
Reading
It is a cognitive process of decoding symbols to
derive meaning from text (as in reading a book or reading
music)
Components of Reading:
1. Decoding
2. Comprehension
3. Retention

14. READING SKILLS
Types of Reading:
There are four major types of reading
1. Skimming
2. Scanning
3. Intensive
4. Extensive

15. READING SKILLS
To Improve Reading skills: