Chapter 17 is focused on the importance of integrating language skills. In the text, Brown refers a number of possible approaches of four-skill integration and how they contribute or relate to language learning and teaching. These approaches are content-based instruction, task-based instruction, theme-based instruction, language experience approach, and the Episode Hypothesis. While content-based instruction is centralized on the subject-matter content, task-based instruction is focused on the task itself in a language. Theme-based instruction, differing from content-based instruction, is used to balance the multiple interests of students and a focus on content. In addition, experience learning is to give students concrete experiences to involve them in language learning intrinsically. In the Episode Hypothesis, students will learn a language easily if they are given connected sentences which have a logical structure and a storyline.
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it seems that you read really carefully which is nice. however, I would suggest that you do not have to summerize the readings. What you might better do is to touch on some points that interests you or you may relate that with one of your personal experiences in learning or teaching. This is what the purpose of the bloging is for this class,I think.
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