Second, there is the higher, broader level of the integration of the practice of these
skills with each other, and indeed with other aspects of language to be acquired and
exercised, e.g. genre-appropriacy, discourse-grammar features, vocabulary.
It seems sensible to conceive of integration in terms of language practice using a
body of ideational information, which may be a story's sequence of events, or
a descriptive set of points of information, or a sequence of steps in a procedure or a
process (Burgess, 1994, pp. 309±310; Burgess and Carter, 1996, pp. 217±218). Such
a concept of integration will allow us to address both of the levels posited above.