Module teaching and integrating language skills lesson 1

Activity 2, Handout 2. Presenting

TEACHING AND INTEGRATING LANGUAGE SKILLS

Introduction
This course provides an introduction to the ways and means of teaching and integrating language skills. The course focuses on the practicalities of communicative language teaching theories and issues related to communicative methodology.
Aim
To equip students with means of practicing language skills in an integrated way promoting proficiency in all four skills, and demonstrating the importance of skill integration in EFL teaching.
Objectives
By the end of the course students will

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  be familiar with the skills of language that are used in communication; be familiar with significant modes of skills integration (content based learning, task -based learning, and project based learning);
  
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  identify the means of teaching listening, speaking, reading, writing on the basis of good practice in communicative methodology;
  
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  know how to provide learners with practice in each language skill within an integrated framework;
  
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  understand the importance of fluency in teaching the four language skills within a integrated framework;
  
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  be familiar with principles of integrated skills where the focus is on one skill that leads to practice in another.