Transcript Wilga Rivers

My daily language use
A. What is the percentage of use of the various language skills for your
daily communication?
(a) Listening comprehension
(b) Speaking
(c) Reading
(d) Writing
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B. What percentage of use of the various language skills would your
students need for their daily communication?
(a) Listening comprehension
(b) Speaking
(c) Reading
(d) Writing
….. %
….. %
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….. %
C. What percentage of use of the various language skills would your
students need for communication in their future life?
(a) Listening comprehension
(b) Speaking
(c) Reading
(d) Writing
….. %
….. %
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"Of all the time spent in
communicative activities,
adults devote:
45% of their energies to
listening, 30% to speaking,
16% to reading and
09% to writing."
Wilga Rivers, A Practical Guide to the
Teaching of French.
Write a list of the oral or
written text-types you come
across in your daily life:
Examples:
(a) a telephone conversation
(b) a song
(c) radio news
(d) a conversation in a shop
(e) email message
(f) SMS message
(g) recipe
(h) newspaper / magazine article
(i) Internet advertisement
List of oral or written text-types one may come
across his or her daily life:
Text-Types
(a) Speaking: Write a list of as
many oral text-types as you
can think of.
(b) Writing: Write a list of as
many written text-types as you
can think of.