Abstract
The four basic language skills, listening, reading, speaking and writing are indispensable parts of a language teaching. For successful and effective education and training in foreign language courses, these four basic language skills need to be developed and reinforced in accordance with the level and needs of the learners. The aim of the research is to reveal how the students who are learning foreign languages approach the four basic language skills in general terms, their opinions about the feelings and thoughts, and thus identify important problems within this subject. The problem is not to determine the position of four core skills in foreign language teaching, or to question its definition, but the problem is to show how the students approach and master these four basic skills. This research is a qualitative study and the data that is the basis of the research has been prepared with the help of a questionnaire to determine the opinions of the university students studying foreign language teaching about the four basic language skills. The results of the research have shown that the skills that students most want to develop, pay attention to and feel lacking are speaking skills. Students will be more successful and willing in foreign language lessons when they hear and understand it correctly and they can speak it correctly and effectively. This study reveals how important these skills are for verbal communication and how much it is necessary to acquire them with different approaches and methods in foreign language lessons.
Highlights
There are four basic language skills, listening, reading, speaking and writing in foreign language education and training (Bağçeci & Yaşar, 2007, p. 16; Barın, 1997) and they are indispensable parts of a language teaching
The purpose of this study is not to question and describe the definition of the four basic skills in detail, its contribution to foreign language education; because this type of work has only been done in the direction of the opinions of teachers and linguists by focusing on a certain skill (Deneme & Demirel, 2012)
With the act of speaking, the student acquires the ability to transfer his own feelings, thoughts or knowledge to others, and on the other hand he has the opportunity to learn the feelings, thoughts and ideas of others and he can understand, evaluate and interpret what is happening in the world better by being equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills. When it is looked at the examinations made about reading skills; Şahin (2010) points out that reading skills have a positive effect on other skills, namely listening, speaking and writing skills
Summary
There are four basic language skills, listening, reading, speaking and writing in foreign language education and training (Bağçeci & Yaşar, 2007, p. 16; Barın, 1997) and they are indispensable parts of a language teaching. The purpose of this study is not to question and describe the definition of the four basic skills in detail, its contribution to foreign language education; because this type of work has only been done in the direction of the opinions of teachers and linguists by focusing on a certain skill (Deneme & Demirel, 2012). With the act of speaking, the student acquires the ability to transfer his own feelings, thoughts or knowledge to others, and on the other hand he has the opportunity to learn the feelings, thoughts and ideas of others and he can understand, evaluate and interpret what is happening in the world better by being equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills When it is looked at the examinations made about reading skills; Şahin (2010) points out that reading skills have a positive effect on other skills, namely listening, speaking and writing skills. This type of research has usually dealt with the success of certain skills, the context in which they are treated, the attitudes and achievements of students towards the course (Drese, 2007; Aktaş, 2004; Genç, 1997; Yıldız, 2015)
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