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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. Dictation (exercise) - Wikipedia

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    Secondary to teaching language skills, the exercise of dictation has also been used to introduce students to literary works, and to instill morals. [1] Dictation has also been used in an attempt to capture endangered or dying languages, as in the case of Victoria Howard, a Chinook speaker who dictated songs and stories to Melville Jacobs. [2]

  4. Direct method (education) - Wikipedia

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    Question/answer exercise – the teacher asks questions of any type and the student answers. Dictation – the teacher chooses a grade-appropriate passage and reads it aloud. Reading aloud – the students take turns reading sections of a passage, play or a dialogue aloud.

  5. Dictogloss - Wikipedia

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    Dictogloss is a language teaching technique that is used to teach grammatical structures, in which students form small groups and summarize a target-language text. [1] First, the teacher prepares a text that contains examples of the grammatical form to be studied. [2]

  6. Dictation - Wikipedia

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    Dictation (exercise), when one person speaks while another person transcribes; Dictation: A Quartet, a collection of short stories by Cynthia Ozick, published in 2008; Digital dictation, the use of digital electronic media for dictation; Music dictation, an ear training exercise in which the student copies down music while listening to it

  7. Reading comprehension - Wikipedia

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    Comprehension specifically is a "creative, multifaceted process" that is dependent upon four language skills: phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. [6] Reading comprehension is a part of literacy. Some of the fundamental skills required in efficient reading comprehension are the ability to: [7] [8] [9] know the meaning of words,

  8. Audio-lingual method - Wikipedia

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    A listening comprehension test can be given. Listening comprehension practice can be given using dialogues from other courses of; study or recorded materials that contain most of the language that has previously been learned by the students. The speaking practice would begin after listening comprehension.

  9. Language center - Wikipedia

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    This area of the brain is involved in language comprehension. [7] Therefore, Wernicke's area is for understanding oral language. [8] Besides Wernicke's area, the left posterior superior temporal gyrus (pSTG), middle temporal gyrus (MTG), inferior temporal gyrus (ITG), supramarginal gyrus (SMG), and angular gyrus (AG) participate in language ...