Identify the skills promoted by communication from the following:

The skills promoted by communication are reading and listening together with speaking and writing, so statements 1 and 4 hold.

Statement 1 is right because reading and listening are the receptive skills through which messages are taken in.

Statement 4 is right because speaking and writing are the productive skills through which messages are sent out.

Listening and helping in statement 2 mixes a genuine language skill with helping, which is not a communication skill.

Helping and speaking in statement 3 again pairs speaking with helping, so it cannot be a pure skill set.

The four true skills split neatly into receptive reading and listening and productive speaking and writing.

These four language skills form the recognised backbone of communicative competence.