This article explores effective strategies for integrating the four essential language skills—listening, speaking, reading, and writing—within university-level ESL instruction. Emphasizing a holistic approach to language learning, it outlines the theoretical rationale, practical classroom applications, and challenges associated with skill integration. The paper analyzes task-based learning, content-based instruction, and project-based methods as effective means to develop communicative competence and academic literacy. It also provides recommendations for curriculum design and teacher training to optimize skill integration in higher education contexts.

integrated skills, ESL, listening, speaking, reading, writing, university-level instruction, academic literacy

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