#135 Reading or Listening in English? (rep)
#135 Reading, Writing, Speaking, or Listening in English? (rep)
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Transcript:
Hello, everybody! I am Georgiana, founder of SpeakEnglishPodcast.com. My mission is to help you to speak English fluently.
In this episode, I’m going to talk about the relationship between reading, writing, speaking, and listening. After that, I’m going to tell you a Point of View Story.
Ok, let’s get started!
As a language student, the main activities to learn a new language are: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. This is what we naturally do in our mother tongue.
One key aspect to keep in mind is that we can categorize these activities as input and output. As you may guess, listening and reading are input activities, and writing and speaking are output activities.
In other words, when you’re listening or reading, you are being exposed to the language, and when you’re writing and speaking, you are “producing” the language.
The traditional approach tells you that the more you write and speak, the better. That’s why language schools insist on writing a lot and “practicing” your speaking with other students, sometimes in groups.
This seems reasonable, but it’s not effective. There’s a lot of research that points out the contrary: Basically, to develop your English, you need to do input activities most of the time.
Why is that? Because you can’t produce the language if you haven’t previously learned it, and the only way to learn it is through comprehensible input, as simple as that.
But then…is speaking and writing a waste of time? No, I didn’t say that.
When you speak in a conversation, you can see what areas of the language you need to improve. Then, when you listen again, you will naturally pay more attention to those areas. For example, if you’re in a conversation, and you have to describe something in the past tense. When you try to do it, you see that you make some mistakes. The next day, when you listen to your materials again, I bet you’ll pay more attention to the past.
A good schedule may be listening for one hour a day (a course, a podcast, etc.) and practicing your speaking with a tutor or friend a couple of times a week. You will improve a lot.
Last but not least, there’s an interesting consequence when you listen and when you read:
Listening will naturally help you with your speaking.
Reading will naturally help you with your writing.
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#135 Reading, Writing, Speaking, or Listening in English? (rep)
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