ICON LATERALS 2023, July 11-12, Malang, Indonesia
Copyright © 2023 EAI
DOI 10.4108/eai.11-7-2023.2340598
Teaching Receptive and Productive Skills in an English
Lesson Using Digital Learning Resources
Harits Masduqi
1
, Fatimah
2
, Mochamad Nasrul Chotib
3
1
harits.masduqi.fs@um.ac.id,
2
fatimah@ub.ac.id,
3
mochamad.nasrul.fs@um.ac.id
Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia
1 3
Faculty
of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney, Australia
2
Abstract. This paper discusses how to implement teaching stages that cover
receptive and productive skills in an English lesson using digital learning
resources. Throughout this paper, the authors elaborate on the teaching stages
which include brainstorming, highlighting vocabulary, predicting text,
rearranging jumbled paragraphs, listening to the right order, reading
comprehension, and acting out the story. It is expected that English teachers
would find the teaching stages useful and applicable to assist their students to
achieve the lesson objectives. Here, the teaching-learning process can be
maximized by using ubiquitous audio-visual learning materials such as online
images and YouTube videos downloadable from the internet. This can prove
useful for students as these materials can easily trigger or further propel their
imaginative ability to later construct virtual environments that are helpful for their
own understanding of the texts or materials given in class.
Keywords: digital learning resources, productive skills, receptive skills, reading.
1 Introduction
Most English teachers in Indonesia know the concept of receptive skills (reading and listening)
and productive skills (speaking and writing). However, whether they know the importance of
integrating receptive and productive skills in an English lesson is another matter. Integrating
productive and receptive skills into the classroom is fundamental and beneficial for learning
success as they play an important role in communication [1], [2], [3]. Considering the
importance of integrating productive and receptive skills in language teaching, this paper
focuses on how to implement teaching stages that cover these skills in a reading lesson. Reading
is selected for this article because Indonesia's reading literacy level was quite low, ranking 74th
out of 79 countries surveyed by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
in 2018 [4]. This fact emphasises that developing reading literacy among Indonesian learners
should be one of the top priorities in Indonesia's education system.
Teaching receptive and productive skills in an English lesson can be optimised by using digital
learning resources such as ready-at-hand audio-visual products such as images on Google