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Communicative

Language Teaching
By: Javier Negrón Rivera
EDPE4078
841-03-5337
Background
► The origins of Communicative Language
Teaching are to be found in the changes in
the British Language tradition dating from
the late 1960s.
Experts in the Field
► Noam Chomsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
► Christopher Candlin http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christop
► Henry Widdowson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hd
Goal
► The communicative competence is the goal
in this approach. It is divided in four
dimensions.
A) Grammatical competence
B) Sociolinguistic competence
C) Discourse competence
D) Strategic competence
Principles
1- Activities that involve real communication
promote learning.
2- Activities in which language is used for
carrying out meaningful tasks promote
learning.
3- Language that is meaningful to the learner
supports the learning process.
Basic Procedure
1- Presentation of a brief dialog, preceded by
a motivation and a discussion of the
function and situation.
2- Oral practice of each utterance of the
dialog segment to be presented that day.
3- Questions and answers based on the dialog
topic and situation itself.
Basic Procedure
4- Questions and answers related to the
student personal experience, but centered
around the dialog theme.
5- Study one of the basic communicative
expressions in the dialog or one of the
structures which exemplify the function.
Teacher centered or Student
Centered?
► Student role: The role of the learner as
negotiator emerges from and interacts with
the role of joint negotiator within the group
and within the classroom procedures and
activities which the groups undertakes. The
learner should contribute as much as he
gains.
Activities in Classroom
► Role Play
► Interviews
► Information Gap
► Games
► Language Exchanges
► Surveys
► Pair Work
Critiques
► The Communicative Approach often seems
to be interpreted as: if the teacher
understands the student we have good
communication. What can happen though is
that a teacher who is from the same region,
understands the students when they make
errors resulting from first language
influence. Problem with this is that regular
speakers of the target language can have
great difficulty understanding them.
Thank You for Your Time

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