英语教学论UNIT13UNIT14.pptVIP

UNIT13 Integrated Skills Arms of the unit 1.Why integrate the four skills? 2.How can we integrate the skills? 3.What are the implications for teaching? 4.What are the limitations of integrating the skills? The four language skills Listening Speaking Reading Writing 13.1 Why should we integrate the four skills? In our daily life, we are constantly performing tasks that involve a natural integration of language skills. One’s overall competence in a foreign language involves performing effectively a combination of the skills (McDonough and Shaw, 2003). Integrating the skills means that you are working at the level of realistic communication, not just at the level of vocabulary and sentence patterns. Realistic communication is the aim of the communicative approach and many researchers believe that handling realistic communication is an integral part of essential conditions for language learning. Integrating the four skills emphasis the focus on realistic language and can therefore lead to the students’ all-round development of communicative competence in English. 13.2 How can we integrate the four skills? Two forms of integration Simple integration Complex integration Simple Integration The easiest form of integration is within the medium (either oral or written), from receptive to productive skills. We use a listening text as a model for the students’ speaking, and a reading text as a model for the students’ writing, this is called simple integration. Here is an example of simple integration My name is Jim Green. I live at 152 Jianguo street, not far from the centre of the city. I have lived there since 1990.Igo to Number14 Middle School. Ive been a student there for nearly two and a half years. Now write about yourself in the same way Complex Integration Complex integration involves constructing a serious of activities that use a variety of skills. In each of the activities, there is realistic, communicative use of language. 13