Integrated Language Teaching

The aim of this paper is to investigate the needs and competences of students in terms of language skills in the context of teaching English to foreigners as well as the roles of teachers who take part in the teaching process. Integrated language teaching is a term used to refer to teaching a foreign language through a content-based subject. That way language is integrated into the natural context and taught through real life situations in order to motivate students to acquire language for the sake of communication. Therefore, integrated language teaching gives preference to natural language acquisition rather than forced language learning (Brown 224-6). This paper will discuss the nature of language in general, its function and purpose in real life, the constituent parts of language, and various language teaching methods. It will also analyse the approaches and attitudes that both teachers and students should be able and willing to assume, as well as the steps that they should take before and during the teaching and learning process. Additionally, I will inquire into the constructivism theory as a teaching and learning approach as well as examine the 5E model, a linear model based on the constructivist approach, which can be very helpful in acquiring new knowledge or understanding more deeply the already existing one