English Language skills

When we think of English language skills, the 'four skills' of listening, speaking, reading, and writing readily come to mind. Of course other skills such as pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and spelling all play a role in effective English communication. The amount of attention you give to each skill area will depend both the level of your learners as well as their situational needs. Generally beginners, especially those who are nonliterate, benefit most from listening and speaking instruction with relatively little work on reading and writing. As fluency increases, the amount of reading and writing in your lessons may also increase. With advanced learners, up to half of your lesson time can be spent on written skills, although your learners may wish to keep their focus weighted toward oral communication if that is a greater need.


But its quite clear that the language skills are paired up in two pairs which compliments each other in learning the language. As listening skill affects communication and language acquisition which creates the speaking skill and reading creates writing skills.

The image above show the exact working of the four skills.The four areas are important, they are connected, one leads to another. Just think in our daily life, we read newspaper, talk on the phone, listen to a song and write a mail. We can be more or less skillful in any of them, but all of the areas are important in language learning