Integrating skills in the language classroom

Integrating skills in the language classroom

• Peter Lucantoni

Peter Lucantoni

• Started teaching in 1979 in UK, MA TESOL University of Edinburgh, lived and worked in Europe and Middle East, now based in Cyprus
• Author, Educational Consultant & Teacher Trainer for Cambridge University Press
• Cambridge TKT, CELTYL, CELTA & DELTA trainer and Cambridge CELTYL assessor
• Examiner for Cambridge ESOL speaking examinations

What does integrated mean?

• What does integrated mean?
• What are skills, language skills and sub-skills?
• What does integrating skills mean?
• How can we integrate language skills in the classroom?
• Conclusions

• Workshop overview

When we integrate things, they combine, or work together to make something more effective

• When we integrate things, they combine, or work together to make something more effective
• An integrated system or organisation combines different groups or ideas in a way that works well

• What does integrated mean?

• The teeth on a zip fastener need to combine in order for it to become effective
• Equally true is that language skills need to combine, to be integrated, in order for communication to become effective

• What does integrated mean?

Try not to think about ELT! Discuss and try to agree on a definition.

• Try not to think about ELT! Discuss and try to agree on a definition.

• What are skills?

• The ability to do something well needs to continue to be consolidated and practised or we can easily lose our skill
• If Rooney stopped practising, would he continue to be a skilled footballer?
• And what about the pianist and carpenter?

• What are skills?