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Methods and Techniques: The Communicative Approach
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The Communicative Approach
Making Language Learning Meaningful
Free Write
Come up with a list of adjectives to describe your education until now.
Total Physical Response
Silent
Method
Communicative
Direct
Audio-Lingual
Content-based
Method
"a coherent set of links between the actions of a teacher in a classroom and the thoughts that underlie those actions—the actions are techniques and the thoughts are principles"
Participatory
Task-based
Multiple Intelligences
Grammar-Translation
Desuggestopedia
Principles
Principles
The Communicative Approach ...
Uses authentic language
Prioritizes understanding intentions
Targets language as a vehicle for communication
Emphasizes the functions of forms and vice versa
Operates at the suprasentential level to demonstrate cohesion
Principles
The Communicative Approach ...
Employs games to mimic real world communication
Creates many opportunities for expression
Tolerates errors
Encourages cooperation
Principles
The Communicative Approach ...
Places the teacher in the facilitator role, often as a co-communicator
Gives students a choice about both what and how to communicate
Grammar and vocabulary flow out of the situation
Free Write
Summarize your education until now.
Free Write
Evaluate your education until now.
The U.S. Context
Group Work
How is the lecture communicative?
How is it not?
Assignment
What communicative activity would you design to follow this lecture?