About English teaching: I. English teaching has traditionally been organized around 4 language skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. II. In the different contexts of social practices these skills do not occur in isolation. III. Computer-mediated communication, for example, offers many examples of new uses of language that demonstrate the connection between different skills. IV. The concept of multiliteration arises to explain the extreme complexity of these new and complex uses of language by new communities of practice.