SIGCUE OUTLOOK Vol. 26 #3 July 1998 A Brand New World for English Instruction With Interactive Multimedia and the World Wide Web Yuangshan Chuang, Ph.D. 1. The Significance of Integrated English Instruction and Interactive Multimedia English has long been playing an extremely important role in international communication; therefore, learning English as a foreign language is gaining momentum. In Taiwan as any other country where English is used as a foreign language, there are a great number of people, including businessmen and students, striving to have a good command of English. But sad to say, most of the college graduates, after sevenyear learning of English, still cannot use the English language communicatively well, which may result from the fact that the four language skills are taught separately. That is to say, the English teachers and students do not grasp the gist that "the four language skills are interlocked and interdependent" (Robinett, 1983, p. 173). According to Murdoch (1986, p. 9), to teach them individually will produce undesirable effects which may prevent students from obtaining communicative abilities to use English in real communicative situations relevant to them. The correlation of the four language skills can be better expounded by Rivers'
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