It involves identifying the sounds of speech and processing them into words and sentences.

Receptive Skills refer to the skills that enable the learners to produce language in written or spoken forms

The receptive skills are those skills where meaning is extracted from the spoken or written discourse.

•When we want our students to hear dialogues and monologues from coursebooks, news, broadcasts, radio programs, podcasts, phone messages, film announcements, etc.

•When a speaker (the teacher or some other visitor to the classroom) is in the same room as the students. Includes lectures, conversations between two teachers, face to face interviews, readings from books, poetry, drama, etc.

•When Ss listen to audio tracks or a live speaker in the classroom

•When Ss listen outside the classroom, often by themselves and for pleasure