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Appendix A
Speaking and listening skills and competencies
Learners will gradually acquire the knowledge and competencies necessary to engage in effective
communication. The list below involves a lot of listening competencies.
• Recognize and reproduce English sounds and phrases easily and correctly,
• Understand and develop the right intonation and stress.
• Extract; gather and organize information from spoken materials effectively;
• Listen, understand and sustain communicative exchanges,
• Make informed guesses and supplement or negotiate meaning to succeed the exchange,
• Speak clearly and effectively, and exchange information, opinions, experiences,
• Understand and respond appropriately to others inside & outside school,
• Realize, acquire and use various types of discourse (scientific, artistic, literary,)
• Develop necessary study skills to improve one’s communicative skills on their own,
• Manage mini-projects efficiently: a short talk / presentation; an intervention in a debate, a short play,)
• Develop ease of delivery, and reasoning skills ,
• Listen , take notes and speak from notes
• Use the knowledge of the language creatively and imaginatively in speaking or listening,
• Value cooperation ,caring , sharing and respect for others,
• Work effectively in groups
• Be aware of own self and be able to express it,
• Modify one’s expectations & behaviour according to attitudes and situations, to harmonize with his
environment,
• Convey and understand cultural concerns based on heritage and national identity,
• Appreciate values and attitudes of other cultures, and be aware of different perspectives reflected in
language.
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