ELT365 · Day 181 — Month 6 Review: Receptive Skills Quiz

Quick check — no notes. Answer from memory, then compare with a colleague or the recap below.

1. What is the difference between gist and detail listening tasks?
2. Name two types of while-listening task that work without overloading processing.
3. What does ‘grading the task, not the text’ mean?
4. Which reading sub-skill uses a specific target and ignores everything else?
5. Why does asking ‘Did you understand?’ not work as a comprehension check?

Recap — D152–D180 covered: gist/detail split, task vs text design, pre/while/post stages, top-down and bottom-up processing, reading sub-skills, schema, connected speech, and L1 interference.

Next month: productive skills — speaking and writing.

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