The document discusses the communicative approach to teaching English, which focuses on meaningful communication, competence, and learner-centered activities like games, drama, and debates to give students real-life experience using English. It provides an overview of communicative language teaching principles and strategies, including ensuring more student talk time than teacher talk time. Examples of communicative activities are given and their benefits for student engagement and confidence.

1. Welcomes to RELO Andes Webinars

2. Implementing the Communicative
Approach to Improve Student
Communication Skills and Competency

3. Talibah Sun, ELF
MA Ed.
• 40 year career in education
• Master of Education, Urban and
Multicultural Education, TEFL,
New Jersey City University
• Master of Education, Educational
Administration and Policy
Studies, California State
University, Sacramento
• Post- graduate International and
Trans-cultural Studies, Teachers
College, Columbia University
• Visited 20 countries; taught
English in 7, Belize, Jamaica,
Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama
and Colombia.
• TOEFL iBT preparation for
international students

4. Question 1: Choose which role
best describes your work:
A.Private School English Teacher
B.Public School English Teacher
C.University English Professor
D.Other

5. The Communicative
Approach/Method
CAT = Communicative
Approach Teaching/Training
CLT= Communicative
Language Teaching

6. The 5 W’s
of CLT/CAT

8. COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING
CLT
 “For communication we need to know both the
language itself and how to use it”
“Learners best learn language when they are actively
using it”
Learners benefit most from activities that provide
meaningful communication
Learners are able to use the language in unrehearsed
context to accomplish communication goals in real life

9. CLT:
Function = the purpose of language.
What do you need to do?
Purposeful communication
Competence
Learner Centered
Real-life purpose and application
Give learners personal experiences with
the target language

10. Communicative Activities:
 Games
 Drama
 Storytelling
 Student created dialogues
 Poetry
 Speeches
 Debates
 Cartoons and Comic Strips
 Public Speaking
 Songs/Karaoke
 Orally giving descriptions
 Unrehearsed presentations
 Pair work
 Small Group Work
 Large Group Sharing

11. Question #2: According to the Communicative
Approach the ideal ratio between teacher talk
time (TTT) and student talk time (STT) is:
A. 75% TTT to 25% STT
B. 80% STT to 20% TTT
C. 50% TTT to 50% STT
D. 60% TTT to 40% STT

12. Focus is on student performance
Student- centered
Student Talk Time (STT)
Teacher is the facilitator
Teacher Talk Time (TTT)is lower than
STT (STT)

13. A CLT Activity: What does it look like?
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N80178uTzQ
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdxD-skEcoI&t=71s

15. In the English language classroom, ESL or TEFL
As an enrichment activity
To supplement and/or supplant English
workbooks
Outside in the environment
Immersed in the culture

16. Student-centered
Improves student
engagement
Builds confidence
Real-life application
 More exposure to target
language
 More authentic
opportunities to use the
target language
 Provides opportunity to use
authentic culturally relevant
and specific materials

17. Internet Resources:
americanenglish.state.gov
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC
BY-NC-SA

18. GAMES

19. Activate: Games for Learning American English
https://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/act
ivate-games-learning-american-english
GAMES:

20. SONGS
 Get Up and Sing! Get Up and Move! Using Songs and
Movement with Young Learners of English
https://americanenglish.state.gov/search/solr/songs?f%5B
0%5D=bundle%3Aresource

21. Dramas and Plays
Using Drama with Children
I English Teaching Forum 2006, Volume 44, Number 2
https://americanenglish.state.gov/search/solr/drama?f%5B0%5D=bundle%3Aresource

22. STORYTELLING, DRAMA and
PLAYS

23. https://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/voa-classroom-activities
Activities for learning and teaching Everyday English, Business English and Academic
English.
VOA Classroom Activities

24. Question 3: Communicative Approach
Activities include all of the following,
except:
A.Stories, plays, skits and dramas
B. Songs & karaoke
C. Games
D. Grammatical Structures
E. Poetry, Speeches and Debates

25. Q & A
Strengths
Weaknesses
Challenges
Opportunities

26. fellow@elprograms.org
@ELPrograms
For more information

28. Thanks for joining us!
Check us out next month
▫ Presenter: Wendy Coulson Catalan
▫ Location: Medellin, Colombia
▫ Topic: Young Learners with Special Needs
▫ Date: May 23, 2018
▫ Time: 1500-1600