1. Department of English
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Present by
Roll no.
Batch year
Semester
Guide by
Paper no
Unit no.
Heeral A.Bhatt
07
2013
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Heenaba Zala
12
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2. Presentation Topic
Structural Approach and
Communicative Approach

3. Definition of structural Approach
• In the words of Menon and Patel: "The
Structural Approach is based on the belief
that in the learning of a foreign
language, mastery of structures is more
important than the acquisition of
vocabulary."

4. Objectives of structural approach
Emphasis on
oral-aural
approach
Corelate of
teaches
grammar
&composition
Active use of
3000 words
Repetition of
275 graded
structures

5. Characteristics of Structural Approach
Word
order
Presence
Use of
of
small
Function
number
words
inflections

6. Example of the characteristic
presence of function words
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I kill the snake.
I shall kill the snake.
I shall be killing the snake.
I shall have killed the snake.
I have killed the snake.
I have to kill the snake.
I might have killed the snake.
I can kill the snake.

7. Inflection changes in structure
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(i) In Verbs: I play: he plays; I am playing; I
played.
(ii) In Nouns: one boy, two boys, that boy's cap;
one man, two men, men's food.
(iii) In Adjectives and Adverbs:
(a) great ... greater ... greatest good ... better ...
best
(b) Great ... greatly; beautiful ... beautifully.

8. Principles of Structural Approach
Forming
language
Habits
Importance of
speech
Importance of
pupil’s
activities

9. Idiomatic
structure
formulas
Types of
structur
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Sentence
pattern
Phrase
pattern

10. Approach
Selection
Gradation

11. Selection
Usefulness
Teachability
Productive
surrender
value
simplicity

12. Teacability
Difficulty
level
Usefulness
Gradation

14. Merits Demerits
Merits
• Speech is emphasized
• Habit formation is stressed
• Students –active
participants
• Creates interest and
motivation
• Language taught in
meaningful situation
Demerits
• Good plan fails
• Not helpful in teaching
prose,poetry etc..
• Mechanical drilling
• A time consuming
technique
• Less stress on
reading,writing and
vocabulary expansion

15. How does communicative
approach develop as a teaching?
Approach propagated by sociolinguist Dell Hymes

16. Communicative approach
It is one of the aim is to help learners
to acquire communicative competence
: ability to use linguistic system
effectively and apropriately

17. Concept
• Comes from the Latin word Communis =
“common”
• The term communicate means to share ideas
or to convey messages verbally or non
verbally

18. Chracteristics
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Emphasis on learning by use
No gap between learning and usage
Contents is in centre
Developing four basic skills
It stresses on meaning base teaching
Judicious use of mother tongue is accepted

19. Merits Demerits
Merits
• Enable students to express
their ideas.
• Develops speech ability
• Difficult & complex
concept learn through this.
• It is present situation –
learner makes less error
• It develops curiocity an
intellactual ability
Demerits
• New approach so tested
into language learning
• It ignores grammar and
structure of language
• Unsuitable for evaluation
and examination
• Difficult to attend the
groups pairs in a large class
for a teacher.

20. Difference between Structural
approach Communicative approach
Structural Approach
• Mechanical drilling
• Less stress on four skills.
• Through this approach the
teacher can attend to the
whole class as maximum
students can be taught by
this approach at a time.
• Language taught in
meaningful situation .This
approach is linked with
situational teaching.
Communicative Approach
• The most natural way of
language acquistion
• It believes to develop four
basic skills in an integrated
way.
• Difficult to attend the
groups pairs in a large class
for a teacher.
• It is based on the functional
utility of the language

21. Submitted To
S.B.Gardi Department of English
M.K. Bhavanagar university
Submission Date : 15/10/2013
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