Kuma Chapter 10

This chapter was entitled "Integrating Language Skills." In L2 learning and teaching we have to integrate the language domains: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Traditionally we did this through interactive scenarios, problem-solving tasks, content-based activities, project-based activities, whole-langauge activities, and experiential activities. These activities provide students with a degree of conceptual, communicative, and linguistic challenge that can be monitored and maintained on all levels of proficiency. This chapter was really interesting to me being that I am a bilingual major and integrating language skills into the classroom everyday is what I will be doing for the rest of my life. I also found the microstrategies for teaching very useful in this section of the book because they had some good examples such as describing some sort of text that they read, and what was most incredible to me was their idea of "reality TV" and see what they thought it was and explain and make a lesson out of it because Tina and I are kind of doing something similar at the ELI for our final project where we are putting on our own News Broadcast where everyones going to play a role and we will learn news broadcast dialogue and key words and phrases. It was cool to see that it was one of the examples but we had already been working on it all semester without even knowing this was an example of something you could do to incorporate the language skills in a lesson.