Integrating The “Four Skill” BY somayeh Bagheri kangani
Integrating The “Four Skill”
BY somayeh Bagheri kangani
OBJECTIVES OF THE CHAPTER Appreciating the importance of integrating
skills for more authenticity and better
reinforcement
Understanding the characteristics of several
different approaches that illustrate the
integration of skills
Analyzing a lesson from point of view of its
integration of skills
Applying concepts of skills integration to the
next four chapters, which deal with the
separate skill
HUMAN RACE HAS FASHIONED TWO FORMS OF:
Oral Productive performance: Written
Aural Receptive performance: Reading
WHY COURSES WEREN’T ALWAYS INTEGRATED? Focusing on the form in the pre-
Communicative Language Teaching
Administrative considerations
Certain specific purposes
WHY INTEGRATED SKILL? Production and reception are two sides of a
coin! Interaction means sending and receiving
messages The relationship between written and spoken
language Interrelationship of these two is a reflection of
language and culture and society Primarily attention to what learners can do
with language and secondary to form Often one skill will reinforce another In the real world of language use, not only
the integration of one or more skill, but also connections between language and the way we think, feel and act are involved.
MODELS OF SKILLS INTEGRATIONS
Content-Based Instruction
Task-Based Language Teaching
Theme-Based Instruction
Experiential Learning
Episode Hypothesis
CONTENT-BASED INSTRUCTION
Focused on the nature of the subject-
matter rather than by language form
Second language is a medium to convey
informational content
Learners are focused on useful, practical
objectives as the subject-matter is
perceived to be relevant to long-term goals
It allows for the complete integration of
language skills
CONTENT-BASED INSTRUCTION
Immersion program
Sheltered English program
Writing across the curriculum
English For Specific Purpose (ESP)
TASK-BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING
Emphasize on centrality of the task itself
Importance of organizing a course around
communicative tasks that learners need to
engage in outside the classroom
Priority is on the functional purposes for
which language must be used
Focuses on a whole set of real-world tasks
The course goals center on learners’
pragmatic language competence
THEME-BASED INSTRUCTION
Tends to focus on topics, situations or
“themes”
Is a weak version of content-based
instruction
Having an equal value on content
and language objectives
Example: English for Academic
Purposes (EAP)
TOPIC: ENVIRONMENT
I. Use environmental statistics and fact
for classroom reading, writing,
discussion and debate.
II. Carry out research and writing projects
III. Have students create their own
environmental awareness material
IV. Arrange field trips
V. Conduct simulation games
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
Includes activities that:
engage both left and right-brain
processing
Contextualize language
Integrate skills
Point toward authentic, real-world
purposes
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
Gives students concrete experiences
through which they discover language
principles
Gives students opportunities to use
language as they grapple with problem-
solving complexities of a variety of
concrete experiences
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
An emphasis on the marriage of two substantive principles:
A. One learns best by “doing” by active experimentation
B. Inductive learning by discovery activates strategies that enable students to “take charge” of their own learning progress
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
Example: Language Experience Approach (LEA)
Learner-centered:Hands-on projects, computer activities, research projects, cross-cultural experience etc.
Teacher-controlled:Using props, realia, visuals, show-and-tell sessions, playing games, utilizing media etc.
EPISODE HYPOTHESIS Francois Gouin : Series Method
EPISODE HYPOTHESIS
John Oller: Episode Hypothesis
“ text will be easier to reproduce, understand, and recall to the extent that is structured episodically”
POSSIBLE WAYS TO INTEGRATE SKILLS IN EPISODE HYPOTHESIS:
It challenges the teacher and textbook writer to
present interesting and natural language
It can be presented in either written or spoken
form
It can provide the stimulus for spoken and
written questions
Ss can be encouraged to write their own
episodes
Those written episodes might then be
dramatized in the classroom by students
AN INTEGRATED LESSON
Warm-up
A. Presentation
B. Listening focus
C. Grammar
D. Focus on the types of workers
Wind-down
Parisa ZaeifiWinter, 2014Islamic Azad University