Four Basic English Language Skill

Four Basic Languae skills

Introduction
	Language educators have long used the concepts of four basic language skills:
	Listening Speaking Reading Writing
	The four basic skills are related to each other by two parameters:
	the mode of communication: oral or written the direction of communication: receiving or producing the message
	We may represent the relationships among the skills in the following chart:
	Oral Written Receptive Listening Reading Productive Speaking Writing