Integrating Language Skills

Abstract

Listening, speaking, reading and writing are four basic skills of learning a language, first or second, native or foreign. Related to them are three sub-skills, namely, pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. One way of teaching/learning of these skills, in the second/foreign language environments, is integrating them into a single package, rather than keeping them separate or segregated. This paper offers a model of integrating these skills, so that teachers may teach a language effectively and the learners can learn and use it easily. The model has been explained with examples for the better understanding of teachers and learners. The people in the language teaching profession may bring it to the classroom and test its efficacy, and ultimately remodel it to their own needs.