A integração das quatro habilidades linguísticas no ensino de língua inglesa.

Abstract

Since a few decades ago, language teaching has had as its main objective to develop the four basic skills in the learners, namely: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. Through the study of the history of English language teaching, it is possible to see that, traditionally, these four skills are approached in a segmented way, or else, only one or two of them are highlighted while the others remain excluded. However, currently, much has been spoken and researched about such integration process, the idea is to develop a work which combines them in order to enhance the communicative competence in the learners. In this context, the objective of this research is to discuss relevant issues in relation to this topic, through the lenses of the Communicative Approach, based on the studies of Brown(2007), Harmer(2007), Hinkel (2006), Larsen-Freeman (1986, 2000), among others. Thus, this study consists of a bibliographic research which aims to survey the state of the art to better found the discussion sand proposals. In it, it will be showed why and how to integrate the four skills, besides, it will be suggested some activities that contemplate such integration.