Integration of skillzzzzz

Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking. What do these four words mean to you? How do you use them in the language classroom? When I first started reading this weeks assignment, I thought to myself that teaching each one of these skills seperately just seem to make more sense because you are able to get so indepth in each area without have to worry about the others. STOP. But then i realized that humans respond to feedback. We listen to music and then we sing in the shower. We read a book and then write a poem. We are always responding to the world around us that is why teaching only one of these four skills is not efficient.

The approach that i connected to the most is the experimental learning, mostly because it brought back thoughts of a class I took last semester that dealt with the issues of cognitive development most specifically Piaget. The notion I related that class to this weeks reading was that humans develop through experimenting and creating schemeta. Experimenting creates a context to which we can understand the world around us and language is the vehicle we use to explore the world. Without experimenting we don't have language and vice versa.