TEACHING/ DEVELOPING THE FOUR MAJOR SKILLS (WRITING, SPEAKING, LISTENING, READING)

Abstract

Teaching and developing four major skills (Writing, Reading, Speaking and Listening) or also known as macro-skills in education system in Kosova are not practiced well in contrary to microskills that concentrate more on grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation & spelling. Teachers teach 4 major skills to students to help them understand and learn English language better and properly and thus give them required skills in order to enroll to better and quality universities abroad and find better and suitable jobs within local and international institutions. Students at schools are not exposed to the environment of learning and developing these 4 skills through restrictions from national curriculum and textbooks available in our schools that are printed and published long time ago which lack updates. Teaching and also assessing major skills focuses on making students more active learners by teaching them how to learn and develop themselves into language and how to use what they have learned in order to be successful as individuals after school in their private and professional lives.

Numerous studies around the world have contributed to both theory and teaching by showing fruitful results supporting the significant role of teaching & developing four skills for effective and successful language learning. Factors related to English language skills teaching/learning use range from cultures and educational contexts to individual learner variables, such as motivation, learning styles, years of learning, proficiency, and achievement. The majority of researches have focused on importance of teaching and developing macro-skills among young adult and adult learners.