Macro skills

1. Difference of Expressive and Receptive Macro skills

Receptive macro skills
- The ability to understand words and language.
- Inferring communication and information from our environment and experiences
- Example - When you hear a siren, you know that there’s a need for you to get out of the way and
let the vehicle pass because of emergency
- Macro skills: Listening and Reading

Expressive macro skills

- The use of words, sentences, gestures and writing to create a message or convey a meaning.
- It is frequently associated with using words in creating sentences, how to use grammar and how to
produce words with proper pronunciation.
- Macro skills: Speaking and Writing

2. Difference of Macro Skills and Micro Skills

Macro skills
- Refer to the primary, key, main, and largest skill set relative to a particular skill.

Micro skills

- These are often called as the subskill of a macro skill.

- Refers to the specific competencies or skills used for a particular macro skill

3. Examples of Micro skills under macro skills

- Listening
Discrimination among sounds, detecting keywords, recognition of grammatical structure. Richard
(1983) and Brown (2007)
Inferring meaning from what is being said.

- Reading
The ability to scan and skim texts.
Understand what is being read.
Identify discourse markers

- Writing
Writing with correct grammar
Punctuating correctly
Outlining

- Speaking
Proper Pronunciation
Speaking with correct stress, juncture or other paralanguage features

4. The connection of the macro skills with vocabulary, grammar and literature?

Macro-skills are the primary ability that involves the process of developing our knowledge and
competency. Each of our macro-skills works on improving certain ability to comprehend
components of language that includes the vocabulary, grammar and literature. The fluency and
accuracy within these components boils down on how we improve and develop our macro-skills. Macro
skills are vital in the manifestations of interpreting and producing a spoken or written piece of discourse
(literature) as well as a way of manifesting the rest of the components of a language (vocabulary and
grammar)