Integrating Language Skills for Communicative Competence: A Contemporary Theoretical Approach in EFL

Abstract

Incorporating the four language skills has become a fresh movement in the process of language learning and teaching to form an integrating-skills approach. Many English language teachers consider this way of learning as an effective line to improve students’ communicative competence to use the language functionally. This line of teaching is unlike the traditional way of teaching which encourage teaching the skills separately. Presenting all language skills together help learners to know the language and to be able to use it naturally in communication. This paper reviews ideas related to integrating skills method to offer a good way of understanding of using it in the process of learning. Interconnection of the language skills are explored through this paper and highlight the reinforcement among them. Also, it explores the cooperative relationship between receptive and productive skills.