om the outside world. In the case of foreign language learning, essful receptive study is expected to be based on Krashen’s “prehensible input”(39) and Ausubel’s “meaningful reception learning”(Hohn 224). Here, munication is the key to ess. In receptive study, you select and take in what is new and meaningful to you.Р3.2 Productive studyРProductive study occurs when you use what you have learned. This is more demanding because it results from your recalling what you have learned. For example, if you want to retell a story in English, you have to memorise enough words and sentence patterns as well as the plot of the story. In receptive study, you may try some informed wise guesses with the help of the context munication. However, guessing techniques are of little use in language production.