Are passive skills such as reading and listening very similar in teaching and learning?
Yes, they are and they can be dealt with similarly. For instance, the teaching and learning materials for both reading and listening skills can be put on the Internet, but it is difficult to put the material for active skills such as speaking on the Internet. Both language skills are used to receive information, but the environments are very different. As a result, teaching and learning both skills require many different methods as the following three examples clearly indicated. • First of all the requirement of time for understanding a relevant material is different. The reading skills can be done through an analytical approach, because the time for understanding a relevant passage is controlled by students. Because of this, we fully explored the analytical approach in the reading session. On the other hand, the same approach cannot be used for learning listening skills, as the time for understanding a conversation or a piece of news report is not controlled by students. Consequently,
