Learn how to speak like a native English speaker in only five minutes a day! This course was specially designed to help English learners overcome one the most important parts of speaking a new language, their pronunciation or accent.
Career Paths: Engineering is a new educational resource for engineering professionals who want to improve their English communication skills in a work environment. Incorporating career-specific vocabulary and contexts and reviewed by leaders within the engineering industry, each unit offers step-by-step instruction that immerses students in the four key language components: reading, listening, speaking and writing. Career Paths: Engineering addresses topics including tools, materials, numbers, engineering concepts, converting measurements and career options
Reading Comprehension Through Speaking and Listening
Reading “floats on a sea of talk” (Britton, 1970, p. 164). Learning depends on the use of language knowledge for the purpose of acquiring more language, concepts, and information (Merritt & Culatta, 1998). Recent research shows that students’ oral language proficiency plays a crucial role in the acquisition of reading fluency and comprehension.
The importance of teaching listening and speaking skills
The aim of this paper is to show the importance of listening and speaking skills in the classroom in order to get a perfect acquisition of the second language. Although these skills have been explained separately, they are really connected and it is really important to put into practice together and integrate them with the rest of skills.
