Category Archives: communicative method

Making Requests is an Important Lesson

April 13, 2008 – 7:14 am

My 6:00 p.m. Saturday lesson this week included two students. We worked on making requests and went through the normal lesson plan with no problems but when I asked them to think of and make requests on their own, they seemed to stumble. In some cases I give them a simple scenario such [...]

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楽しい英会話のレッスンはスミス英会話で必ずのことです。Smith’s Always Provides a Fun Lesson!

April 13, 2008 – 6:46 am

The laughs are abundant at Smith’s School of English. This week my Saturday 3pm lesson included three students who were tasked with miming some activities to get their partners to guess what they were doing and to use the past continuous tense. It never fails that one of the students does something [...]

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What Is the Outcome?

March 16, 2007 – 10:47 pm

Learning through the communicative approach means the learned language becomes a true means of expression. Even values and judgment can be articulated. Learners will gain a functional knowledge of the language that meets whatever specific or general communication needs they may have.

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What Is The Goal Of Communicative Method Of Teaching Language?

March 16, 2007 – 10:46 pm

Having a technical knowledge of a foreign language is not enough. The learner may be able to read the target language and understand others or even converse on a limited basis with a fluent speaker. But technical knowledge does not mean that all necessary thoughts, ideas, concepts, emotions, and meaning, are truly exchanged. The non-native [...]

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How Does It Work?

March 16, 2007 – 10:44 pm

Since the communicative method is geared to each learner, the experience and techniques used will vary, but such learning is invariably exciting and full of possibility. Any activity that involves authentic communication may be used. Practicality is stressed. Activities can include one-to-one or small group interaction involving discussion and negotiation, practicing language through role-playing, learning [...]

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What is the Communicative Teaching Method?

March 16, 2007 – 10:23 pm

The “communicative approach to the teaching of foreign languages” — also known as Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) or the “communicative approach” — emphasizes learning a language through genuine communication. Learning a new language is easier and more enjoyable when it is truly meaningful.
Communicative teaching is based on the work of sociolinguists who theorized that an [...]

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