Nadia Lisseth Fierro

TESOL: Methods
24-11-2014
5B Semester

The goals of a communicative language:

1. To become communicatively competent.
2. To use the language appropriate for a given social context.
3. To manage the process of relating meaning with interlocutors.
A learners role is Breen and Candlin in Richards & Rodgers describe the learners role
within CLT is as negotiator between the self, the learning process, and the object of
learning emerges from and interacts with the role. It joins within the classroom and group
procedure and activities which the group undertakes. A teachers role according to Breen
and Candlin in the Richards and Rodgers is that the teacher has two main roles in CLT. For
example, first Facilitator and independent participant. Other roles that can be assumed for
teacher are needed analyst, counselor, and group process manager. Some types of classroom
activities are range of exercises types and activities compatible with communicative
approach is unlimited, which would be information-gap activities, Jigsaw activities and pair
and group work. Some instrumental materials are text-based materials, task-based materials
and realia.
In Hymes's view, a person who acquires communicative competence acquires both
knowledge and ability for language use with respect to
1. Whether (and to what degree) something is formally possible;
2. Whether (and to what degree) something is feasible in virtue of the means of
implementation available;
3. Whether (and to what degree) something is appropriate (adequate, happy, successful) in
relation to a cont.ext in which it is used and evaluated;
4. Whether (and to what degree) something is in fact done, actually performed, and what
its doing entails.