Brown discusses the integration of the "four skills", reading-writing-speaking-listening and the importance of integrating skills for more authenticity and better reinforcement of the language. After reading what he had to say about the types of instruction (content-based, task-based, theme-based, experiential, episodic), I was able to establish a basis for my future teaching. When thinking back to my experiences learning a second language, the more integrated the four skills were, the more progress that I made. Seeing that the four skills are the fundamentals of learning a language, the different appraoches that illustrate the integration of skills is extremely important. It will be up to us to integrate skills while making sure that the needs of all students are met in the classroom.
Kumar reinforces the importance of the integration of skills as well as communicative competence and discourse in language learning. Chapter nine was a review of contexualizing input. In order to purposefully and beneficially integrate skills, our students have to properly differentiate input. Also, to maintain authenticity, educators need to move outside of the traditional textbook and use authentic texts such as newspapers or media. Kumar ties in both chapters by reminding us that the comination and integration of all four of the language skills builds upon the contextualization of the input. I really liked what Kumar said in Chapter ten about creating a colorful tapestry with the weaving of the strands that consist of the four primarty skills. As a future educator, I plan to work towards finding the perfect weave while facilitaing classroom activites that involve a meaninful and simultaneious engagement with language in use. The main focus of this weeks reading was to become familiar with instructional methods in integrating skills in our classrooms. Also, it is important to go beyond the limitations of teaching and the classroom in order to promote a postive and meaningful learning experience for students learnin a second langauge.
Kumar reinforces the importance of the integration of skills as well as communicative competence and discourse in language learning. Chapter nine was a review of contexualizing input. In order to purposefully and beneficially integrate skills, our students have to properly differentiate input. Also, to maintain authenticity, educators need to move outside of the traditional textbook and use authentic texts such as newspapers or media. Kumar ties in both chapters by reminding us that the comination and integration of all four of the language skills builds upon the contextualization of the input. I really liked what Kumar said in Chapter ten about creating a colorful tapestry with the weaving of the strands that consist of the four primarty skills. As a future educator, I plan to work towards finding the perfect weave while facilitaing classroom activites that involve a meaninful and simultaneious engagement with language in use. The main focus of this weeks reading was to become familiar with instructional methods in integrating skills in our classrooms. Also, it is important to go beyond the limitations of teaching and the classroom in order to promote a postive and meaningful learning experience for students learnin a second langauge.
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