Language acquisition is contrasted with language learning which is used with reference to a second language which a person learns deliberately; particularly in formal settings like school etc. The researchers like Littlefair (1991), Dockrell and Messer (1988), and Widdowson, (1978) distinguished language acquisition from language learning and used the expression of first language acquisition in contrast with second language learning but many researchers and theorists don’t distinguish between the two. Farzan (2000) for instance, treated language acquisition as a purely stylistic alternate to language learning.
The four main skills of the English language are reading, listening, speaking, and writing. A person needs a mastery of various elements to use the language to convey thoughts, wishes, intentions, feeling and information in a written form (Pamela, 1991).