There is a close connection between the use of different types of knowledge and the connections with the four strands of language arts: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In the quest to gain knowledge, learners need to use their language skills. The knowledge can be categorised as conditional, declarative and procedural knowledge. In order to gain these three types of knowledge, language users need to use the four language skills and they are listening, speaking, reading and writing. In the context of this study the skills are developed by language users in the process of gaining conditional, declarative and procedural knowledge. This study is done to explore how conditional, declarative and procedural knowledge influence the use of language skills. 252 respondents responded to the survey. The instrument used in this study is a survey. The survey has 4 sections. Section A has items on demographic profile, section B has 22 items on conditional knowledge, section C has 10 items on declarative knowledge and section D has 10 items on procedural Knowledge. Data is analysed using SPSS and revealed that different people focus on different knowledge in their effort to learn English. Total mean show that language uses used declarative most often compared to conditional and procedural knowledge. Findings of the study bear interesting implications in the teaching of all four language skills.
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