Integrated Skills Approach

The Integrated Skills Approach consists of teaching the basic skills as well as the related skills interwoven during instruction. The basic skills being listening, speaking, reading and writing and the related skills vocabulary, spelling, pronunciation, syntax, meaning and usage.

Comments:

• the two forms of integrated skill instruction are used is through "content-based instruction" and "task-based instruction";
• the learners are exposed to authentic language and they are challenged to interact naturally in language.

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Bibliography:

Oxford, Rebecca. "Integrated Skills in the ESL/EFL Classroom". CAL Online Resources: Digests, 2001.

Jing, Wu. "Integrating Skills for Teaching EFL". 2006. Web.