I totally agree that listening is one of the most important skills. I was even thinking that technically it is possible to survive somewhere with listening, reading, and writing.
I really liked reading about possibel listening comprehension teaching techniques, although it seems that they might be a bit harder to implement in academic environment. One problem I have - is references to Jack Richards. I understand that he is one of the big figures in SLA, but last year I taught using his textbook, Interchange, and it was one of the weirdest textbooks I experienced.
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Hi Mariya, what do you mean by "it's possible to survive somewhere with listening, reading, and writing?" Were you saying that it's possible to survive somewhere without using the target language speaking skill? Like a few people living in China Town in the states, and they never speak English.
Mariya,
I suppose writing could substitute for speaking...
I understnd that China has a commom written language but that some dialects of Chinese are not understood by speakers of other Chinese dialects.
So about the Richards text - how do you mean weird?
Lilian, what I meant was that technically and very theoretically, it is possible to go by without speaking, but instead writing or acting out the necessary message.
By weird I mean a very strange selection of vocabulary and grammar items, form only presentation (no explanation of meaning, let alone usage), non-authentic dialogues.
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