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Considering the language learning process as a whole, for an effective communication, foreign language learners are supposed to master writing skill in the target language as well. Nevertheless, writing skill has been one of the most neglected skills in language education since it is likely to be accepted as hard by both language teachers and learners. The aim of the article is to zoom in on the major approaches to teaching writing in foreign language education, English in particular, and discuss the integration of the skill with teaching other language skills with examples. As is highlighted by Burgess (1994), such an integrated way of skills in language education is of great importance in terms of triggering learners to make use of both receptive and productive skills on the way of learning another language. Students seem to complain about the writing topic in which they have little or no knowledge but are asked to write on. In order to minimize it, a practical solution suggested by Jiang and Du (2006) can be followed to integrate writing classes with highly concentrated reading classes to support them. Unlike teaching writing in isolation, teaching writing skill integrated to other major skills appears to bring a case of spontaneous and natural communication into the language classroom. Activities with integrated skills could also pave the way for providing learners with the required discourse knowledge to be successful in using language. It is highly possible to decide on the most feasible writing approach by taking a range of issues (i.e., teaching context, objectives, interests and levels of leaners) into account. After reviewing the approaches to teaching writing by referring back to various teaching contexts, the article touches upon ways of integrating teaching writing skills with different types of activities.

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