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Receptive Competences—Reading, Listening, Viewing

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Traditionally, reading and listening have been considered to cover the range of receptive skills which learners in the English language classroom need to develop. Since the 1990s with the growing importance of images and audiovisual texts in our daily lives and the increased integration of audiovisual material in English classes, viewing and so-called audiovisual comprehension (Hör-Seh-Verstehen) have been incorporated as receptive skills.

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Surkamp, C., Yearwood, T. (2018). Receptive Competences—Reading, Listening, Viewing. In: Surkamp, C., Viebrock, B. (eds) Teaching English as a Foreign Language. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04480-8_6

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