Topic 7B – The oral foreign language. The complexity of understanding the overall meaning in oral interaction: From audition to active and selective listening. Taking word of imitative reproduction to autonomous production.

Using a foreign language eefectively requires having a number of different abilities. Linguistists have identified four major abilities, which are called linguistic skills. They are: listening, speaking, reading and writing. (about their classification and their integration...

In the first part of the unit, I am going to explain the relationship that exists between the reading and writing skills. Both terms are narrowing linked because these skills are present from the first stages in the approach of the foreign language. The language...

In relation to the written foreign language we have to bear in mind we can find three different styles according to writing purpose; the expresive style focuses on the expression of the writer´s personal feelings; the trasactional style focuses on logical statements...

Sistema fonológico de la lengua inglesa II: Acento, ritmo y entonación. Comparación con el sistema fonológico de la lengua o lenguas oficiales de la Comunidad Autónoma correspondiente....

Lo primero que uno descubre cuando quiere comenzar a hablar inglés, es la gran diferencia de "formas" del idioma que existen(tanto habladas como escritas). La riqueza de acentos del inglés es realmente sorprendente, por lo que, teniendo en cuenta que hemos...

In English there is no a univocal system of orthographic reference for all the different sounds such as in Spanish. This is due to the evolution of the phonological system and the evolution of the written system which took place in different centuries...

Lexical and semantical fields of english. Words are essential to communication. Everybody learns to speak in isolated words and then we begin to use chains of words and verbs...

The first thing a child does in his/her Mother Tongue, once he/she has carried out the emission of sound stage, is to say words, isolated words but with meaning.They are connected with the world around him/her and are probably those with which the child has...

An ability to manipulate grammatical structure does not have any potential for expressing meaning unless words are used. We talk about the importance of “choosing your words carefully” in certain situation, but we are less concerned about choosing structures...