Brown (2001), advocates that despite our history of treating the four
skills in separate segments of a curriculum, there is
a recent trend toward skill INTEGRATION. That
is, rather than designing a curriculum to teach the
many aspects of one skill, say, reading, curriculum designers are taking more of a WHOLE LANGUAGE approach whereby reading is treated as
one of two or more interrelated skills. A course that
deals with reading skills, then, will also deal with related listening, speaking and writing skills. A lesson
in a so-called reading class, under this paradigm,
might include, EXCEPT:
