Integrating Writing With Listening in EFL Class: A Systematic Review

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Writing is one of the vital skills in higher education life. It may determine academic achievement and mark language proficiency. This review aims at sharing of reports on examining the attempt to integrate writing with listening that has done in prior studies in the field of EFL or ESL class. material is an effort of combining two skills in the same time, therefore, hoping, by doing that would improve the students’ skill in listening and writing. For the purpose of framing this review, the key search terms used to gain data were integrating writing skills” and “listening skill”, “also “systematic review”, and “English as a Foreign Language” or “EFL” also “English as a second language” or “ESL”. The studies have been identified through popular electronic databases web site namely ERIC and Google Scholar particularly those appears in the first five screen show which each screen consists of ten relevant articles, resulted in fifty possible relevant ones. They are then identified and selected basis upon the main key search terms’ the integration of writing and listening as prescribed in the inclusion and exclusion criteria: This systematic review provided a descriptive data on context, participants, aim, methods, and main outcomes applied in integrating writing and listening skills with their relevant activities such as listening diary and journal writing and then singing. This review also reveals that the lack of the number of studies related to the integration of the two skills. Yet, It challenges more studies focusing on different methods and strategy for better results, breakthroughs and recommendations.