The concept of integration has been widely used as in whole language teaching and content-based instruction. To provide communication-focused language teaching, there has been constant attempt to integrate grammar and other functions, which results in...
The concept of integration has been widely used as in whole language teaching and content-based instruction. To provide communication-focused language teaching, there has been constant attempt to integrate grammar and other functions, which results in more integrated teaching manners of four skills. It is ideal to set high school Korean elective subjects as the following three subjects: Literature and Reading, Writing and Speech, Grammar. The elective subject Grammar, however, has been integrated into Reading and Grammar due to its low rate to be chosen as a separate elective subject. Although it is contrary to the general expectations that the subject Grammar would be integrated with Writing, it gives a chance of new challenge for grammar. The basis of integrating Grammar and Reading lies in the existence of textlinguistics as a strong ground. The reading theories of bottom-up approach and top-down approach show a close relationship between reading and grammar units. Grammar is constructed by structure grammar and living grammar and is divided into comprehension grammar and expressive grammar. It is necessary to achieve diverse integration of structure grammar and living grammar and integration of expression and comprehension in curriculum, textbook, and pedagogy.