THE ADVANTEGES OF AN INTEGRATED APPROACH IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING
Keywords:
Integrated approach; foreign language teaching; communicative competence; interdisciplinary learning; multimodal instruction; intercultural competence; learner-centered strategies.Abstract
This article explores the growing significance of the integrated approach in foreign language teaching, emphasizing how modern pedagogical methods benefit from blending linguistic, cultural, cognitive, technological, and communicative components into a unified instructional system. Over the past decades, traditional teaching methods—focused narrowly on grammar, vocabulary, and translation—have shown limitations in addressing the real communicative needs of learners in multilingual and multicultural environments. The integrated approach responds to these limitations by interweaving language skills, content knowledge, authentic communication tasks, and digital tools. The article concludes that integrated language teaching is not only beneficial but essential for achieving high-quality, sustainable language learning outcomes in the 21st-century educational context.
