C. The Importance of Using Integrated Skills in Teaching Oral English
As Harmer suggests: one skill cannot be performed without another. It is impossible to speak in a conversation if you do
not listen as well, and people seldom write without reading
The table below shows how all four skills are related techniques.
Since the four language skills of listening , speaking reading and writing are interrelated and interacted with each other ,
it may be suggested that the four basic skills should be taught inclusively rather than separately ,as Byrne argues, we
need to see why integrated skills activities are important :