Propsal 2

After last week, I wanted to learn more about integrating language skills. I never had thought deeply of importance and different ways to integrate language skills. I wanted to write advantages and disadvantages of integrating skills. However, if I included the disadvantages and disadvantages, the paper will be too long. At the beginning of the research paper, I wanted to talk about importance of integrating language skills. First article that I read was written by Akram and Malik. An article is a research about the problems to ELT and some suggestions to solve these problems.  The article talked about how many ESL teachers are focusing on teaching one language domain. Also, it is more challenging to integrate language skills when the teacher is non native speaker. The article also talked about CLT and SLA. CLT is to develop students’ communicative competence. CLT also teaches language that can be used in real world. In the real life, we use more than one language domain for communication. Integrating the four skills can emphasize the focus of realistic language. SLA is how people learn second language. The article talked more about the problems of CLT and SLA and their solutions. SLA’s and CLT’s problem is the students can fail the learning in CLT and SLA depends on their culture and social factors. Integrating different four language skills can overcome these cultural problems that ELL students have.

The second article is about different methods of integrating skills in the ESL and EFL classroom. This article is written by Rebecca Oxford. The article talks about segregated skill instruction that have advantages of integration language skills. Segregated skill instruction is when language learning is separate from content learning and focus on segregated language skills. Within segregated language instruction, there are two forms of integrated skill instruction. They are content based and task based instruction. Content based instruction is when students practice the entire language domains while learning content. Task based instruction is when students learn through different tasks. The article talked about how it is necessary to learn different ways to integrate skills and reflect on their approach and choose carefully on textbooks and technologies.

The third article is written by Penelope. It is about how to integrate language domains. The article talked more on advantages of integrating different language domains. Many students will learn different types of language and how meaningful it is. Also, the integrating different language domains can interact with other subject and creates motivation to learn language by interaction rather than just knowing the language.  By integrating different domains, the teacher can teach multiple skills at one time. 

Akaram, Annela, and Ammela Malik. "Integration of Language Learning Skills in Second Language Acquisition." International Journal of Arts and Sciences 3.14 (n.d.): 231-40. InternationalJournal.org. Web. 1 Nov. 2012.

·         Oxford, Rebecca. "CAL: Digests: Integrated Skills in the ESL/EFL Classroom." CAL: Digests: Integrated Skills in the ESL/EFL Classroom. CAL, Sept. 2001. Web. 01 Nov. 2012. <http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/0105oxford.html>.

·         Penelope. "An Integrated Approach to Language Learning." Yahoo! Contributor Network. N.p., Sept. 2006. Web. 01 Nov. 2012. <http://voices.yahoo.com/an-integrated-approach-language-learning-77279.html?cat=4>.