RECEPTIVE AND

PRODUCTIVE SKILLS

GROUP 7
MARTINA LONDOÑO
DANIELA LÓPEZ
GABRIELA MANOBANDA
CINTHYA MARTINEZ
ALEJANDRO MONCAYO
 COMPARATIVE CHART

RECEPTIVE AND PRODUCTIVE SKILLS

RECEPTIVE SKILLS PRODUCTIVE SKILLS

SIMILARITIES SIMILARITIES
The receptive and productive skills are parts of It allows the student to develop the communicative skills necessary
communication and people need linguistic skills to achieve to produce language.
them all. Both are made up of oral and literary skills.
Both receptive skills, listening and reading, require The two are interrelated and allow the development of
language input. comprehension.
The two of them are known as passive skills. They complement each other in order to achieve proper
DIFERENCES communication.

The ability to understand through listening and reading. DIFFERENCES

Understanding the words, meanings, examples about what
the ideas are about a reading or what other people say.
Passive skills: trough listening we can interpret the
messages and the reading is the way to transmit that
interpretation.
Productive communicative skills are the abilities that we used to
produce a message (output).
They are crucial as they give students the opportunity to practice
real-life activities in the classroom.
In adults Productive skills are composed by reading, writing and
interaction, but in the first ages it could be pointing or drawing.

ACADEMIC PARRAGRAPH
IN SUMMARY, PRODUCTIVE SKILLS ARE USED TO GIVE OR PRODUCE INFORMATION. ON THE OTHER HAND, RECEPTIVE SKILLS ARE USED TO ACCEPT
OR RECEIVE INFORMATION. BOTH ABILITIES ARE PART OF COMMUNICATION. RECEPTIVE SKILLS ARE CONSIDERED PASSIVE SKILLS DUE TO THE FACT
THAT WE INTERPRET INFORMATION. IN CONTRAST PRODUCTIVE SKILLS ARE CONSIDERED ACTIVE SKILLS BECAUSE THEY ALLOW US TO PRODUCE
LANGUAGE. BOTH TYPES OF ABILITIES ARE INTERRELATED AND PROMOTE COMPREHENSION. THEY PLAY A KEY ROLE IN GIVING STUDENTS THE
OPPORTUNITY TO PRACTICE ENGLISH IN A REAL-LIFE CONTEXT.
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