ELT365 · Day 153 — Top-down vs bottom-up processing
Idea — Top-down: learners use context, topic knowledge, and prediction to build meaning. Bottom-up: they decode individual sounds or words first. Skilled listeners and readers do…
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ELT365 · Day 152 — What receptive skills are
Idea — Receptive skills are listening and reading — skills where meaning flows in. You decode; you don’t produce. Both are active, not passive: the brain…
ReadELT365 · Day 212 — Month 7 review — productive skills quiz
Idea — Thirty-one days of productive skills: accuracy and fluency, controlled and freer practice, discussion tasks, feedback slots, process and product writing, cohesion, register, and staging.…
ReadELT365 · Day 211 — Integrating all four skills in one lesson
Idea — Real language use rarely isolates a skill. A well-designed lesson threads reading, listening, speaking, and writing through one topic — each skill feeds the…
ReadELT365 · Day 210 — Six common productive-skills lesson mistakes
Idea — Common errors: correcting during fluency tasks; no model before freer practice; open prompts with no outcome; giving the answer before learners self-correct; no feedback…
ReadELT365 · Day 209 — Staging a writing lesson — the full sequence
Idea — Writing lesson order: lead-in → model text analysis → planning → first draft → peer or teacher feedback → redraft → self-edit. Each stage…
ReadELT365 · Day 208 — Staging a speaking lesson — the full sequence
Idea — Speaking lesson order: lead-in → model the task → analyse language → controlled practice → freer practice → feedback slot. The model shows what…
ReadELT365 · Day 207 — Pronunciation in productive work — what to teach
Idea — Do not teach every pronunciation point — teach the ones that affect intelligibility. Word stress, sentence stress, and key sounds cause most misunderstandings. Example…
ReadELT365 · Day 206 — Monologues vs dialogues in speaking lessons
Idea — Monologue tasks build extended turn-taking: describing, narrating, presenting. Dialogue tasks build interaction: initiating, responding, clarifying, negotiating. Both are real speaking sub-skills. Example — Monologue:…
ReadELT365 · Day 205 — Dictogloss — the speaking–writing bridge
Idea — Dictogloss: the teacher reads a short text at natural speed. Learners take notes, then reconstruct it in groups. They produce their own version —…
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