ELT365 · Day 182 — What Are Productive Skills?
Idea — Speaking and writing are productive skills — learners generate language, not receive it. Both require simultaneous control of form, meaning, and discourse. Example —…
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ELT365 · Day 181 — Month 6 Review
Idea — This month covered receptive skills: top-down and bottom-up processing, gist before detail, pre-task stages, reading sub-skills, and reading into speaking. Example — Schema theory…
ReadELT365 · Day 180 — Selecting a Listening or Reading Text
Idea — Text selection criteria: appropriate length and complexity for the level, genuine interest value, enough richness for a task. The best text sparks disagreement. Example…
ReadELT365 · Day 179 — Reading into Speaking
Idea — Integrating reading with speaking gives readers a real purpose — they read to have something to say. It is the most natural reading follow-up.…
ReadELT365 · Day 178 — Authentic vs. Graded Texts
Idea — Authentic texts carry real language — irregular syntax, colloquial lexis, cultural assumptions. Graded texts are written to level. Both have a place. Example —…
ReadELT365 · Day 177 — Jigsaw Reading
Idea — In jigsaw reading, different groups read different texts, then regroup to share information. Nobody has the full picture until everyone contributes. Example — Three…
ReadELT365 · Day 176 — Reading Circles
Idea — Reading circles assign roles — summariser, questioner, connector, vocabulary detective — so every learner processes the same text differently and shares findings. Example —…
ReadELT365 · Day 175 — Inferring Vocabulary from Context
Idea — When learners meet unknown words, context is the first tool — using the surrounding sentence and paragraph to infer likely meaning. Example — ‘The…
ReadELT365 · Day 174 — Detailed Reading Tasks
Idea — Detailed reading tasks require learners to locate, understand, and often infer specific information. They follow gist — they never precede it. Example — ‘Find…
ReadELT365 · Day 173 — Gist Tasks for Reading
Idea — A gist reading task asks one global question answerable after a single read — it trains learners to resist processing every word first. Example…
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