THE IMPORTANCE OF INTEGRATED SKILLS IN TEACHING ENGLISH FOR EFL LEARNERS

Abstract

The integrated-skills are important and necessary that based on listening,
speaking, reading, and writing, which has become a new trend in EFL contexts because
it is believed an effective approach to develop students’ communicative competence
and the ability to use English to gain access to social, vocational, educational, or
professional opportunities. Various from the traditional segregated language skills
approach which presented a language skill in isolation from the others, the integrated-
skills approach presents all language skills in conjunction with each other so that the
learners do not only knows the language they are learning but also are able to use it
natural communication. This article is intended to inform current studies and ideas
related to integrated skills approach in order to provide a more vivid understanding of
its implementation in EFL contexts.