英语教学法教程PPT教学课件-Unit 13
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王蔷英语教学法教程第二版Unit13Unit 13 Integrated Skills一、Reasons for integrating the four skillsWhen we communicate, we often use more than a single language skill. In our daily lives, we are constantly performing tasks that involve a natural integration of language skills simply because skills are rarely used in isolation.Integrating the skills allows you to build more variety into the lesson because the range of activities will be wider. Instead of just having listening, the students can have speaking, reading and writing practice. This can raise their motivation to learn English.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 emphasizes the focus on realistic language and can therefore lead to the students’ all-round development of communicative competence in English.二、Ways to integrate the four skills1. Simple integration: The easiest form of integration from receptive to productive skills. In other words, we would use a listening text as a model for the students’ speaking, and a reading text as a model for the st udents’ writing. This is common practice among teachers, and we will call it simple integration.2. Complex integration: This involves constructing a series of activities that use a variety of skills. In each of the activities, there is realistic, communicative use of language.三、Implications for teaching1. Focus on discourse 关注话语The main implication for teaching is that we need to be aware of the discourse features of a text and to be able to make students aware of them.2. Adjusting the textbook contents 调整教材内容As teachers, we have to use our professional judgement, based on our knowledge of the students, to decide how much detail we should include in the lesson. It is important to find a balance.Our teaching that requires attention if we adopt an integrated approach is the use of the textbook. We should make some changes to the textbook contents.3. Adjusting the timetable 调整时间表We have to make the timetable arrangements more flexible so that we can integrate the skills better.四、Limitations of integrating the four skills1.It is not easy for teachers to maintain an appropriate balance between integration and separation.While integrating the four skills can help the development of students’ communicative competence, we must not overlook the useful role that a separate focus on individual aspects of vocabulary, grammar and skills can play. If taught well, these aspects can accelerate the students’ language learning.2.Integrating the four language skills can be demanding of the teacher. This can also be time-consuming, requiring a lot of preparation.3.Another limitation is the problem of designing suitable materials that take into account students’ different skill levels. The four skills tend to develop at a different pace: receptive skills are stronger than productive skills, for example. This means that teachers have to be skillful in selecting or designing integratedactivities for their students.。