7.Macro skills and Sub skills

Nowadays, learning a language is so important that it is required for applying in jobs, traveling and making business. People want to learn a language because they can have more opportunities in life. The most demanded language is English, so we as teachers have to be prepared for teaching those people, in the classroom, we have to teach important aspects of the language, and the aspects are some specific skills to manage the language. Those skills are called Macro skills, and we can take into account sub skills of a language.

In simple words, the macro skills are four, and they refer to the capacity that person has to

manage the use of listening, speaking, writing and reading of a language. For everybody, it is important to have those skills if we want to be fluently in a language. We as teacher have to teach students to apply those macro skills in their lives. It is important to mention that when learning a language, children always learn to listen and to speak first. The same happens in learning a language because people learn to listen, to speak, then to write and to read. 

Listening 

It is the ability of communication that requires that a person understand, evaluate and interpret what she or he is hearing. Listening is an oral skill. When a person is able to listen, he or she can catch the code that another person is transmitting. A person can hear, but if he or she does not understand. Communication does not take place.

Speaking   

Even if this skill is considered difficult, the truth is that it is the most important. The reason is speaking is the key of communication. It is the vocalization of human communication, and it is important to share what we think. It is important because we send a message or idea, so it is essential for the communication.

Writing   

It is the ability to convey a message by using text and letters. Writing with reading are literacy skills. Writing is good to convey a message and to create new information.

Reading

Reading is the ability to understand and comprehend the written form of a language, it is useful to share information and transmit messages.

Sub skills

They are what people need in a language. They are aspects such as grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary and spelling, intonation. To use the language properly, people need to manage those things. For example, grammar is useful to write and speak correctly. Vocabulary is useful for writing and speaking, and spelling is useful for writing, reading and so forth.

Some ideas were taken from:

https://www.indigoz.com.au/language/teachmacro.html

https://www.theclassroom.com/four-macro-skills-communication-8313176.html

Edgardo Osorio` video about macro skills