How does the way in which Dr. Martin proposes to integrate the 4 skills in the language classroom resonate with your experience as FL students during the last two years?

At the last conference that we went, we listened to Dr. Martin who explained the technique of four skills in the language classroom. The technique involve: (1) listening, (2) writing, (3) speaking, and (4) reading. This technique has been successful used in my experience at the university, especially in signatures such Language, or the pedagogies ones. Teachers give a topic and/or a grammatical structure and a couple of minutes to write down some key words. Then, we share in groups or couples our answers or comments.

I think Dr. Martin’s proposal is a very good technique because, as she said, “those four skills are needed for a complete communication”. Inside the classroom is one of the few opportunities that we have to practice our English because we can have feedback from our classmates and the teacher, and it is because of that this technique is really useful, and in fact, it has been useful for me in the university. So, when the day of being teacher comes for me, I definitely will use it.