INTEGRATED SKILLS APPROACH

Abstract

Most English teachers in Kazakhstan have been familiar with the notion of oral communication skills, receptive skills (readingand listening) and productive skills (speaking and writing). Yet, most of them have not realized thatintegrating oral communication, receptive and productive skills into an English lesson is important for their learners toachieve lesson aims. This paper, therefore, would like to address how to implement teaching stagescovering those skills for the integration purpose. For practical reasons, the writer will apply the stagesin a reading lesson. The teaching stages include eliciting ideas, highlighting lexis and their meanings, predicting text, ordering jumbled paragraphs, listening, reading comprehension, and acting out the story/speaking. By applying those stages, the writer expects theaudience to realize that integrating oral communication, receptive and productive skills into an English lesson is feasible andvaluable to measure whether or not the learners have achieved the lesson aims.