Definition of Skill, Speaking and Listening.

What is a skill?

An ability and capacity acquired through deliberate, systematic, and sustained effort to smoothly and adaptively carryout complex activities or job functions involving ideas (cognitive skills), things (technical skills), and/or people (interpersonal skills).

Speaking definitions.

1.    Speaking is an interactive process of constructing meaning that involves producing and receiving and processing information (Brown, 1994; Burns & Joyce, 1997).

2.    The delivery of language through the mouth. To speak, we create sounds using many parts of our body, including the lungs, vocal tract, vocal chords, tongue, teeth and lips.

3.    The action of conveying information or expressing one’s thoughts and feelings in spoken language.

4.    Speaking is the productive skill in the oral mode. It, like the other skills, is more complicated than it seems at first and involves more than just pronouncing words.

5.    The action of conveying information or expressing one’s feelings in speech.

Listening.

Listening is receiving language through the ears. Listening involves identifying the sounds of speech and processing them into words and sentences. Listening is vital for learner. Of the four skills, listening is by far the most frequently used. For good listening lessons here is the basic structure:

·         Pre-listening: Learners are ready to listen.

·         While listening: Make sure that all of the students are sure about the listening.

·         Post-listening: We are going to check all the answers or according to the activity to succeed in the practice.