Developing Productive Skills Through Receptive Skills – A Cognitive Approach

Abstract

Communication plays an important role nowadays. The transmission and interchange of ideas, facts, and feelings of action are known as communication. It is done through words, actions, signs, objects or combination of all these. Communication skills are needed in each and every field of life. Everyone uses a language to communicate and to express oneself to get ideas and to connect with persons for a purpose. There are four basic skills of learning English language such as speaking, listening, reading and writing. The difficulties in speaking and writing can be found and then improved by some classroom activities by the way of giving task to the students for listening. Teachers give assignments to the learners to develop their writing skills. Cognition refers to the mental activities like thinking, remembering, memory, learning, comprehension, perception, motivation and using a language. The understanding and learning of information and concept is known as the cognitive approach. It is an approach that maintains how a person feels and behaves. Cognitive learning is about developing true understanding and is a way of learning that helps the learners to use their brains more effectively. The configuration of thought processes and psychological activities like problem solving and decision making from early childhood to adulthood is called as the cognitive development. This article deals with the ways and means of enhancing the speaking skills by intensive practise, writing through different activities and improving the receptive skills of the learners through cognitive approach.

A Need for a Substantive Change in Tertiary EFL Education

“…These findings indicate that productive skills constitute a challenge for the students, whereas they considered receptive skills -listening and readingthe most effortless skills to learn. According to many studies, learners tend to develop their receptive skills before acquiring productive capability, and this is related to the cognitive approach where cognitive learning is about creating proper understanding and is a way of learning that helps the learners to use their brains more effectively (Sreena & Ilankumaran, 2018), thus reading and listening increase students' comprehension which boosts their ability to speak and write. During their basic education years, Saudi students are taught English through traditional methods, which focus on the memorization of grammatical structures and vocabulary rather than on the practical use of the language.…”

Shadowing Technique on Students’ Listening Word Recognition

“…By becoming aware of the link to the students, teachers can assist the students in their overall language development. Listening is a receptive skill (Sreena & Ilankumaran, 2018).…”

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“…Productive skills consists of speaking and writing, while receptive skills consist of listening and reading. (Sreena & Ilankumaran, 2018) states productive skills refer to the ability for students to speak and write. They have to be able to create a product, oral or written.…”