TNTEU · B.Ed · BD1LC · Visual Summary
The whole paper at a glance — the four skills, the reading types, the writing process, the key thinkers and the numbers, all as pictures. Every teacher is a teacher of language.
The Four Language Skills — LSRW receptive vs productive
Two skills take language in (receptive / input); two put language out (productive / output). Natural order of development: Listening → Speaking → Reading → Writing. Integrating all four builds overall proficiency.
The Four Types of Reading know which is which
Match the purpose to the technique. Also remember loud (aloud) vs silent reading as a further pair.
For speedquick coverage of the text
Fast reading for the main idea / overall sense of a text.
Searching quickly for a particular piece of information.
For depthquality of engagement
Careful, detailed reading of a short text for full understanding.
Wide reading of longer texts for fluency & pleasure.
Comprehensionreading in the content areas
Meaning = text interacting with the reader's background knowledge (schemata).
Literal → interpretive/inferential → critical/evaluative → creative.
Process Approach to Writing 5 stages · recursive
Writing is a recursive process, not a one-shot product. The five connected stages, in order.
Key Thinkers & Landmarks who said what
Name the person, attach the idea. These are the attributions examiners look for across all five units.
Nature & acquisitionUnits I
"A purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols."
Instrumental, Regulatory, Interactional, Personal, Heuristic, Imaginative, Representational.
Innate Language Acquisition Device & Universal Grammar; language is inborn.
Learning & languageUnits I–II
Acquisition = subconscious & natural; learning = conscious study of rules.
Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills vs Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency.
UK "A Language for Life" — popularised the LAC principle.
Discourse & readingUnits III–IV
Initiation–Response–Feedback/Evaluation — the dominant classroom talk pattern.
Readers understand new text by relating it to prior knowledge structures (schemata).
Key Numbers & Lists memorise these
The figures examiners love — the ones that turn a good answer into a full-mark answer.