Designing foreign language teaching skills

Abstract

Language skills are essential in language learning, through which we receive the sent message and interact with other people by producing the appropriate message. In language teaching, they are our essential tools to provide comprehensible input and to practice appropriate discourse. Therefore, we need to present foreign/second language by listening and reading skills and subskills, and practice it by speaking and writing. Initially, teachers focus on these skills individually, however, when the students reach a certain level, they attempt to integrate various skills depending on their purposes and activities such as listening and speaking, listening and writing, reading and writing or reading and speaking. This integration may even take place as a combination of three or four skills depending on the nature of the task or activity. In this chapter, we are going to focus on teaching four language skills both as individual and integrated skills. We are going to display certain principles and techniques as to how to teach and practice through various proficiency levels.