What is integration of teaching skills?

What is integration of teaching skills?

Integrated Skills focuses on the four main English skills - reading, writing, speaking and listening - through a “Communicative Language Teaching” methodology. New grammar patterns are learned in the context of a conversation or a real-life situation.

Teachers spend a lot of time in class working on reading, writing, listening and speaking with their students. These skills are essential for effective communication and are the areas tested in many well known English language examinations.

We may work on a number of these skills within a single lesson, however, we often teach students to do them in isolation. If we want our learners to become successful communicators, we need to make the situations as authentic as possible inside the classroom.To do this we need to use an integrated approach to language learning.This is when we ask the students to use a combination (or all four) of these skills within a single activity (or series of activities) to create a situation which is much more similar to one they might come across in the real world.If you take, for example, a simple telephone conversation. We listen to what the other person is saying and then reply. We may also need to make a note of something they’ve said, read it back to make sure it makes sense and then explain it to someone else.Integrating skills can help students transfer skills. if students have to read a blog post before writing their own they’ll become familiar with the structure and content which will help them write it.It also allows you to vary your activities in class, creating a more engaging and motivating experience for students.