The Importance Of Oral And Written Language

1. Introduction

The languages are important elements in people’s lives since we use these linguistic codes to communicate with others establishing a process in which we receive information via listening or reading (input) and to complete the process we produce oral and written language (output). This process occurs in the speaker’s mother tongue, but it also happens in the second language. Moreover, the proficiency of language in each speaker can vary depending on the experiences they have faced; for example, a language user who reads various books per year will have a deeper reading comprehension and a wider vocabulary range to express what he feels than someone who does not read. Also, in order to measure the language proficiency that a user must

• Process writing at an efficient rate of speed to suit the purpose.

• Recognize a core of words, and interpret word order patterns and their significance.

• Recognize grammatical word classes (e.g., nouns and verbs), systems (e.g., tense, agreement, and pluralization), patterns, rules, and elliptical forms.

• Recognize cohesive devices in written discourse and their role in signaling the relationship between and among clauses.

• Recognize the rhetorical forms of written discourse and their significance for interpretation.

• Infer context that is not explicit by using world knowledge.

• Recognize the communicative function of written text, according to form and purpose.

• Distinguish between literal and implied meaning.

Activities

Based on the micro skills that compose the reading skill, I propose the following set of activities that will help me to reach the C1 level according to the Common European Framework of References:

• Read educative articles from diverse electronic newspapers like The Guardian, The Sun, BBC, CNN, among others in order to get the ability to summarize articles.

• Read more books in English in order to acquire new