Speaking & Writing as Active Productive Skills
Let us understand ore clearly as why speaking and writing are called the active or productive skills.
Speaking and writing skills are called productive skills.
What is speaking?
It is the action of conveying information or expressing one`s thoughts and feelings in spoken language.
To express thoughts, opinions or feelings orally;
They are crucial as they give students the opportunity to practice real life activities, in the classroom.
These two skills can be used as a ’barometer’ to check how much the learners have learned.
Speaking as we all know is an act of communication performed in a face to face interaction. It is not an isolated activity but in more of a reciprocal activity. “When we are talking or speaking or saying, we don`t only use our vocal organs, it also involves our gestures, facial expressions and body movements. At the same time, a lot of visuals are also associated with this act of speaking.” Speaking is a productive skill because a speaker needs a listener.
Writing, as physical activity, is productive in the same way. As in speaking the sounds are perceived by the ear, similarly in writing the movements of the arm and fingers produces letters which are perceived by the eye. Writing is not simply producing letters randomly, but a productive writing is that which manifests the correct graph-logical and grammatical system of the language.
While writing a writer is not just producing English sentences, but is consciously arranging them in a sequence to create a discourse. In writing to you need a reader as in speaking you need a listener. A writer is persuading his reader that whatever he is writing has a purpose which is worthwhile.
