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  2. Glossary of language education terms - Wikipedia

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    Listening, speaking, reading and writing are generally called the four language skills. Speaking and writing are the productive skills, while reading and listening are the receptive skills. Often the skills are divided into sub-skills, such as discriminating sounds in connected speech, or understanding relationships within a sentence. Learning ...

  3. Language development - Wikipedia

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    Then in turn, when a development in children's written language skills is seen, their spoken language skills have also improved. A child's written language in this phase mirrors their spoken language. [54] In the third phase, differentiation, children begin to learn that written language regularly differs in structure and style from spoken ...

  4. Spoken language - Wikipedia

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    A spoken language is a language produced by articulate sounds or (depending on one's definition) manual gestures, as opposed to a written language. An oral language or vocal language is a language produced with the vocal tract in contrast with a sign language , which is produced with the body and hands.

  5. Wikipedia:Language learning centre/Word list - Wikipedia

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    A big list will constantly show you what words you don't know and what you need to work on and is useful for testing yourself. Eventually these words will all be translated into big lists in many different languages and using the words in phrase contexts as a resource. You can use the list to generate your own lists in whatever language you're ...

  6. Oral skills - Wikipedia

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    Oral skills are used to enhance the clarity of speech for effective communication. Communication is the transmission of messages and the correct interpretation of information between people. The production speech is insisted by the respiration of air from the lungs that initiates the vibrations in the vocal cords. [ 1 ]

  7. Cross-cultural communication - Wikipedia

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    Different spoken languages. Spoken language is the most important communication tool between people. Spoken language is seen as people's natural production tool, more common and normal, while written language is seen as intricate because of its broad rules. [citation needed] The same language has different meanings in different contexts. When ...

  8. Phonics - Wikipedia

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    Reading by using phonics is often referred to as decoding words, sounding-out words or using print-to-sound relationships.Since phonics focuses on the sounds and letters within words (i.e. sublexical), [13] it is often contrasted with whole language (a word-level-up philosophy for teaching reading) and a compromise approach called balanced literacy (the attempt to combine whole language and ...

  9. List of languages by number of native speakers - Wikipedia

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    The following languages are listed as having at least 50 million first-language speakers in the 27th edition of Ethnologue published in 2024. [7] This section does not include entries that Ethnologue identifies as macrolanguages encompassing all their respective varieties, such as Arabic, Lahnda, Persian, Malay, Pashto, and Chinese.