Micro and Macro Skills

Micro skills: the micro skills refers to produce the smaller chunks of language like morphemes, phonemes, etc.

• ·         Produce differences among English phonemes and allophonic variants
• ·         Produce reduced forms of words and phrases
• ·         Use and adequate number of lexical
• ·         Produce fluent speech
• ·         Use grammatical word classes

Macro skills: the speaker must be focused on the largest elements like fluency, discourse, cohesion, etc.

• ·         Appropriately accomplish communicative functions
• ·         Use appropriate styles
• ·         Convey links and connections between events
• ·         Develop and use a battery of speaking strategies

The skills can be considered as a checklist objectives so make sure you are taking into account all of them.