The study of the importance of integrating the teaching of English as a foreign language

Units 1 – The importance of integrate skills teaching English as a foreign language.

MEETING THE PROPOSED UNIT

Objective: To be aware of the importance of study English as a foreign language as a whole, because English teaching is not a pie that it can be sliced, in order to tasted it you have to eat it all. Motivate teachers to work all the skills in class, not just one of them.

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STUDY AND REFLECTION

Why the 4 skills should be studied? Well now days, it is become more important to work on students development as a whole, to be oral fluent in a language it is not longer the only aspect that matter. To define that a person is communicative competent in a language means also that the person can read, write and listen in the target language not just talk. Communication competence comprises of receptive and productive skills. This paper has been made as a guide for teachers of English as a foreign language to develop the students´ abilities in the language. It is the application of an integrating approach for the development of communicative skills in the classroom, in which the four skills in the acquisition of knowledge of a foreign language can be taught in a coherent way, and practiced together, with a distinction of the importance of one upon the other

One image for teaching English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL) is that of a musical stanza. To produce music, it is necessary to write first the pentagram, which is a group of lines where musical notes are written, such as the characteristics of the teacher, the learner, the setting, and the relevant languages (English and the native languages of the learners and the teacher). For the writer to produce a large, strong, beautiful, colorful melody, all of these notes must be interwoven in positive ways. For example, the instructor's teaching style must address the learning style of the learner, the learner must be motivated, and the setting must provide resources and values that strongly support the teaching of the language. However, if the musical notes are not woven together effectively, the final melody is likely to produce something unharmonious pale--not recognizable as a melody at all.

In addition to the strands mentioned above--teacher, learner, setting, and relevant languages--other important strands exist in the final melody. In a practical sense, one of the most crucial of these strands consists of the four primary skills of listening, reading, speaking, and writing. This strand also includes associated or related skills such as knowledge of vocabulary, spelling, pronunciation, syntax, meaning, and usage. The skill strand of the melody leads to optimal ESL/EFL communication when the skills are interwoven during instruction. This is known as the integrated-skill approach.

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