Working your linguistic abilities

One needs to be specially responsible when working linguistic abilities as a way of promoting the equality between people of different sex, race or ethnic groups; between people that requires special attention: elders, children, economically disadvantaged, people with special educational needs; in order to eliminate or prevent conflicts of different levels of complexity, and finally, in order to improve the relations with other citizens.

Essentials of basic skills:

What and how to listen?

Educational meaning and importance of the essentials.

Listening is the linguistic skill that, on a daily basis, occupies most of the time of our communicative exchange. It has the distinctive feature of being a skill that it is already sufficiently developed (spontaneous, simple and concrete) when the child starts his/her basic education, and that later should tend to reach higher levels of complexity and abstraction. It shouldn't be understood as an isolated communication skill, because it keeps a direct relation to the other three skills, and at this age it works as a necessary starting point for the appropriate acquisition of the other ones.

Difficulties and relevant contents

The most appropriate development in the school setting should achieve active listening within a large context. The classroom, and the school itself, should be a space for living together, respect, exchange of information and knowledge building.