Do’s

● Recognize that in real life, language skills are integrated

● Recognize that integrating skills is more than just bundling skills.
● Work from a unifying concept that encourages students to enact language to fulfill
one or more of the three macro functions of language
● Provide lessons with integrated skills, as they will be more satisfactory to learners on
top of being closer to real life
● Consider learning more about methodologies that provide frameworks for natural
skills development
○ TBL, CBI, CLIL
● Teach students different learning strategies - this will likely not only help them in one
skill area but in the performance of all language skills.
● Reflect on your own approach regarding skill integration
● Project work, as it may involve researching (through reading or listening), speaking
(e.g. in discussions or when giving a presentation) and writing (e.g. submitting a
report.
● Choose reading and listening texts that are generative - that can be used for lessons
in which a number of skills are integrated.
● Activities such as information gaps, surveys, questionnares, cooperative writing.

Dont’s
● Segregate skills - in real life, language skills are almost always integrated
● Only set productive work that is imatative, but keep in mind that students benefit and
are helped by examples of writing and speaking that show certain ideas that can
inspire them
● Think of skills as separated top-down OR bottom-up processing, but rather as an
interaction between them.
● Be afraid of working with one main skills and having others as subsidiary skills
● Disregard the objective of the lesson while trying to integrate all four skills