The Effect of Four Skills Integrated Approach on Students’ Ability to Write an Expository Essay

Abstract

The research paper investigates the impact of four skills integration approach to teach expository essay at the undergraduate level in Pakistani context. The study uses a quasi-experimental research method. Ninety students participated in this study. Four intact classes were selected to draw the sample. A language proficiency test was given to select the sections which are homogenous in terms of English Language proficiency. Two clusters were formed based on two different teaching approaches. The cluster which was taught in a traditional way was termed as control group and the cluster which received intervention, which was four skills integration, was termed as treatment group. The data run on SPSS and the result shows that treatment group scores appeared greater than the control in the post-test. This study highlights the importance of integration of reading, writing, speaking, and listening to develop students’ language proficiency in general and ability to write expository essays specifically. The research also points out to other alternative research methods to draw insight into the process of learning to write essays.