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Integrating The Four Skills in English Language Teaching

This document discusses integrating language skills into lessons. It states that language learning involves acquiring a set of skills and means learning how to use the language through meaningful and interactive practice. The main language skills are listening, reading, speaking and writing. While classroom techniques for receptive skills like listening and reading are often similar, productive skills lessons for speaking and writing also share similarities. The document provides examples of lessons that integrate skills, with one activity naturally leading to the next. It explains that integrating skills allows practice of language as it is used in real life, offers more variety, and makes better use of lesson time and materials.

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Integrating The Four Skills in English Language Teaching

This document discusses integrating language skills into lessons. It states that language learning involves acquiring a set of skills and means learning how to use the language through meaningful and interactive practice. The main language skills are listening, reading, speaking and writing. While classroom techniques for receptive skills like listening and reading are often similar, productive skills lessons for speaking and writing also share similarities. The document provides examples of lessons that integrate skills, with one activity naturally leading to the next. It explains that integrating skills allows practice of language as it is used in real life, offers more variety, and makes better use of lesson time and materials.

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INTEGRATED

SKILLS
GOWER, G. Teaching Practice. Ch.5: Developing
skills and strategies.

Miss Wanda Yez / Docente USS

What is language learning?


O Not only acquisition of language.
O Not just something we learn about.
O Rather, a set of skills, something we

learn to do.

O So, students need meaningful and

interactive practice in the skills, in


order to learn to USE the language.

Miss Wanda Yez / Docente USS

Language skills
Listening

Reading

Receptive skills

Speaking

Writing

Productive skills

Classroom Techniques for Receptive

skills are often similar.


Productive skills lessons also share
many similarities.
Miss Wanda Yez / Docente USS

O In real life, language skills never occur

in isolation.
O In conversations, we listen and speak.
speak
O When filling in a form, we read and write.
write
O When taking notes, we listen and write.

O Often the use of one skill leads on

naturally to another.
O We see a film, and we talk about it later.

Miss Wanda Yez / Docente USS

How can you integrate skills in a lesson?


O As in real life, skills are integrated with

one activity leading on to another:

Miss Wanda Yez / Docente USS

Example 1
A lesson for intermediate level students, based on a
newspaper article.
Stage
1
T introduces
topic, Ss say
what they know
and discuss what
they could find in
the article.

Stage
2
Ss read the
newspaper
article and
complete tasks:
Reading
comprehension,
vocabulary
development, etc

SPEAKING

Miss Wanda Yez / Docente USS

READING

Stage
3
Ss could write a
letter to the
editor in
response to the
article, or write a
similar article

WRITING

Example 2
A lesson for lower level students about finding
accommodation.
Stage
1

Ss read a
newspaper
advertisement,
focusing on
some of the
special
vocabulary

READING

Stage
2

Ss complete
some tasks:
Roleplay /
informaion gap
activity with a
possible telephone
conversation with
the landlord
(asking questions
and making an
appointment to see
the flat)

SPEAKING

Miss Wanda Yez / Docente USS

Stage
3

Ss listen to a
short piece of
conversation
between the
landlord and
someone
being shown
round the flat.

LISTENING

Stage
4

Ss write a
letter to a
friend
describing
their new flat.

WRITING

Why is it useful to integrate skills?


O It allows for the practice of Lg. as in the

real world.
O Integrated lessons are more satisfying for
learners. They offer more variety
O One single topic can be fully explored, and
vocabulary can be practised and recycled.
O The same context or text can be used for
another activity, so the teacher does not
have to waste time setting up something
new.
Miss Wanda Yez / Docente USS

Practical Work
O Get into groups of three students.
O Talk about your Proficiency or Text & Use

lessons that youve had during the first week.

O Describe one of those lessons, stating clearly

the stage, the activity and the skill developed


with each activity. (As in slide #7)
O Once finished, share your lesson with the rest

of the class.

Miss Wanda Yez / Docente USS

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