Special Topics in Linguistics

In this page I liked to share with you some information about a course I studied in the Lebanese University during preparing for my BS degree. The course name is Special Topics in Linguistics.
The focus of this course was on "Classification of Language Skills". Here I will talk about it.
The process of language teaching is divided into two major stages: input and output.
Input is defined as the receptive skills in which people extract meaning from the source they read or hear, so based on it they'll speak or write.
The receptive skills are reading and listening. These skills are sources of both finely and roughly tuned input. The reasons for reading and listening are instrumental and pleasurable. We can speak about instrumental reading or listening when we want to achieve some clear aims. While pleasurable reading or listening takes place for pleasure.
In both types of reading or listening, the readers or listeners will be interested in the topics either because they find them useful or because they find them interesting.
While reading a text, we identify the topic, predict what is coming, skim, scan, do intensive and extensive reading, infer the opinion, and interpret the text.
Writing and speaking belong to the output skills (receptive skills). When students are working on their language production, they're operating towards the communicative and communicating continuum.
We can develop speaking and writing skills through: questions-answers, picture cues, role play, interviews, monologues, and memory games.