This document discusses the communicative language teaching approach. It originated in the 1960s-1970s as a reaction against traditional grammar-based teaching methods. The goal is to develop communicative competence by using real-life language in meaningful activities. Key features include a focus on interaction, error correction, and preparing students to communicate in the target language's culture. The teacher facilitates communication and students practice communicating. Examples involve information exchanges and role plays. Benefits are increased motivation and effective communication skills.

1. CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF ECUADOR
PLURILINGUE
DIDACTICS
MSc. KARLA HIDALGO
COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH
Group:
Caiza Raquel
Rodríguez Tania
Torres Fernanda

2. COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH
ORIGINS
Communication is the aim of the
language learning.
It started in 60’s and 70’s as a reaction
against the grammar translation
method.
New syllabuses took into account
needs of different pupils in terms of
usefulness for practical purposes.

3. They felt that students were
not learning enough realistic,
whole language. They did
not know how to
communicate using
appropriate social language,
gestures, or expressions; in
brief, they were at a loss to
communicate in the culture
of the language studied.

4. INVENTORS
 Country of Origin: Great Britain
 This method is based partly in the theories of Brititish functional linguists such
as: Firth, Halliday, and the American sociolinguistics Hymes, Gumperz and
Lavob.

5. Theory of Language Communicative
 The goal of language teaching is to develop what Hymes (1972) referred to
as communicative competence. Hymes coined this term in order to
contrast a communicative view of language
 Hymes’ theory of communicative competence was a definition of what a
speaker needs to know in order to be communicative competence in a
speech community.

6. DEFINITION
 Communicative language
teaching makes use of
real-life situations that
necessitate
communication. The
teacher sets up a situation
that students are likely to
encounter in real life.

7. GOALS
The goals of communicative approach are
as follows: (Sunga, et.al, 1994)
 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.

8. FEATURES
 Focuses on language as a medium of
communication social purpose.
 Interaction in the target language in a
communicative way for meaningful
activities
 Errors are considered as a natural part of
learning language .
 Learners should be able to go to foreign
country survive in a variety of everyday
situations.
 Classroom should provide opportunities
for rehearsal of real-life situations and
provide opportunity for real
communication .

9. FEATURES
 Emphasis on: pair work and group-
work.
 Primacy of oral work .
 Grammar can still be taught, but less
systematically.
 Use of everyday language.
 Communicative approach seeks to
use authentic resources real texts:
newspaper, magazines , manuals,
recipes, videos, etc.
 Important not to be restricted to
textbook

10. Role of the teacher:
 The teacher facilitates the
communication in the
classroom, and he also acts
like an adviser and a guide.

11. Role of the student:
 they are
communicators.
 They are actively
engage in trying to
make themselves
understood and in
understanding others.

12. EXAMPLES

14. ADVANTAGES
 Students will be more motived by learning
to communicate.
 Students will learn to communicate
effectively.
 The interaction between students and
teachers. Teacher-student relationship is
an interactive, harmonious relationship,
rather than the traditional education.
 Communicative language teaching
encourage students to participate in,
sometimes accompanied by scenes or
simulated scenarios, so that students more
close to life, the students become the
main character, naturally they were
interested in the English language, to
learn English as a pleasure.

15. IN THE CLASSROOM
Classroom activities guided by the
communicative approach are
characterised by trying to produce
meaningful and real
communication, at all levels. As a
result there may be more emphasis
on skills than systems, lessons are
more learner-centred, and there
may be use of authentic materials.
Authentic materials are those resources that, although not
designed for language teaching, teachers can use in class,
because sometimes they are very helpful.

16. DISADVANTAGES
 A disadvantage is that the
communicative approach focuses on
fluency but not accuracy. The
approach does not focus on error
reduction but instead creates a
situation where learners are left using
their own devices to solve their
communication problems. Thus they
may produce coherent, grammatically
incorrect sentences.

17.  The communicative approach is
based on the idea that learning
language successfully comes
through having to communicate
real meaning.
 When learners are involved in real
communication, their natural
strategies for language
acquisition will be used, and this
will allow them to learn to use the
language.
CONCLUSION

18. Example:
Practising question forms by asking
learners to find out personal information
about their colleagues is an example of
the communicative approach, as it
involves meaningful communication.

19.  It is proven that the games help in learning, helping to
improve cognitive ability, stimulate mental
development and encourage creativity and
imagination of those who practice a new language.
Besides all this, it makes acquiring new vocabulary,
improve understanding of language and group
participation and helps to have more fluid
conversations in this way learning is strengthened.
GAMES TO IMPROVE THE FLUENCY

20. TONGUE-TWISTERS
I wish to wish the wish you
wish to wish,
but if you wish the wish the
witch wishes,
I won't wish the wish you
wish to wish.
She sells sea shells by
the sea shore.
The shells she sells are
surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on
the seashore, I'm sure
she sells seashore
shells.

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