The core role of dialogue teaching in primary school English is to cultivate students' listening, understanding, and expression abilities; Predictive skills are key cognitive skills in the process of dialogue and are crucial for improving listening and speaking abilities; Teachers should attach importance to cultivating and training students' predictive skills in teaching.

The cultivation of listening comprehension and prediction skills

The importance of listening comprehension in dialogue teaching was emphasized, and it was pointed out that listeners need to use language knowledge and activated schemas to think and predict. This article introduces two ways of listening comprehension: "top-down" and "bottom-up", and points out that in dialogue teaching, students mainly use the "top-down" approach to make predictions to improve their comprehension ability and gain satisfaction.

Strategies for cultivating students' predictive skills in primary school English dialogue teaching

Taking Unit 2 of the sixth grade textbook "English" published by People's Education Press as an example, this paper explores strategies for cultivating students' predictive skills in primary school English dialogue teaching. The article is divided into three parts: text pre construction, text construction, and text reconstruction.

conclusion

Predictive skills are crucial for improving students' listening comprehension and speaking abilities, while also promoting the development of their thinking qualities. Teachers should systematically cultivate predictive skills in dialogue teaching, by designing activities such as picture prediction, core sentence prediction, keyword prediction, etc., to enable students to develop their listening and speaking abilities through experience, prediction, verification, and affirmation, enhance their confidence in learning English, and promote the development of core literacy.