The correct sequence of language skills is –

Concept: Language skills split into receptive skills (Listening, Reading) and productive skills (Speaking, Writing), and further into oral skills (Listening, Speaking) and literacy skills (Reading, Writing). The standard acquisition order used in this pedagogy model, known as the LSRW model, follows two governing principles: input is taken to precede output, and oral competence is taken to precede written competence.

Application: Applying both principles in order: Listening comes first (receptive, oral), then Speaking (productive, oral), since oral input is taken to precede oral output in this model. Only after oral competence is established does formal instruction introduce Reading (receptive, written), followed by Writing (productive, written) - again input before output, now in the written mode. This yields the order Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing.

Cross-check: Each distractor breaks one of the two governing principles of this model.

• Listening, Reading, Speaking, Writing places the written receptive skill, Reading, ahead of the oral productive skill, Speaking - swapping the model's second and third skills.

• Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking groups both literacy skills together right after Listening, before either oral productive skill appears in the model's order - reordering all three remaining skills.

• Listening, Writing, Speaking, Reading places Writing, the model's last skill, immediately second - the largest departure from the model's order.

Result: Only Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing matches this model throughout. NCERT's B.Ed. syllabus documentation and CBSE's curricular framework materials both list this same acquisition order for the four language skills.