INTRODUCTION Teaching has become one of the most demanding occupations and teachers are being required to study and get the knowledge necessary to inter act and be clear with and to students. However teaching cannot be an accident and therefore who wants to teach must not only use the language but also know how to teach it. Many schools and institutions are getting any international certification which proves their organization and capacity to fulfill what they are offering‚ so it is mandatory
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COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING - APPROACHES IN LANGUAGE TEACHING DIDATICS Methods BACKGROUND The origins of CLT are to be found in the changes in the British language teaching tradition dating from the late 1960´s. Until then‚ Situational Language Teaching represented the major british approach to teaching english as a foreign language. In slt ‚ language was taught by practicing basic structures in meaningful situation-based activities. But British linguistis saw the need to focus in language teaching
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I love language because it carries beauty and thought. While the study of languages seems monotonous and meticulous to many people‚ to me it is an unfathomable ocean of fun. My initiation of English study originated from my obsession to literary aestheticism. It was a step-by-step aesthetic pilgrimage to the glorious palace of western literature when I started from ABC on‚ then read simple passages‚ later moved onto the beautiful essays and poetry and at last plunged into the classics by literary
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1. INTRODUCTION An English teacher plays an important role in teaching English at all levels of education. When he/she teaches English‚ obviously he/she has to follow some methods. There are five main methods in English language teaching: Grammar Translation Method (GTM)‚ Direct Method (DM)‚ Audio Lingual Method (ALM)‚ Situational Language Teaching (SLT) and Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). Among all‚ Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)‚ is one of the new approaches. The aim of this approach
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Communicative Language Teaching Today Jack C. Richards cambridge university press Cambridge‚ New York‚ Melbourne‚ Madrid‚ Cape Town‚ Singapore‚ São Paulo Cambridge University Press 32 Avenue of the Americas‚ New York‚ NY 10013-2473‚ USA www.cambridge.org © Cambridge University Press 2006 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements‚ no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge
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Language Learning 46:4‚ December 1996‚ pp. 713-749 Review Article SLA Theory Building: “Letting All the Flowers Bloom!” James P. Lantolf Cornell University This article presents a postmodernist critical analysis of the SLA theory building-literature as primarily represented in the writings of Beretta‚ Crookes‚ Eubank‚ Gregg‚ Long‚ and t o some extent Schumann. I argue that there is no foundational reason to grant privileged status to the modernist view of SLA theory these scholars espouse
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Diversity In this country the English language rules the land. Although English hasn’t exactly always been the official language of America‚ it is now. In the early period of our country America was basically a melting pot for cultures‚ languages‚ religion etc. Things have very much changed since then. English may be the dominant‚ but millions of Americans speak more than just English at home. Bilingualism is all around us; in a country that is dominated by English I think bilingualism would strengthen
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COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING: A PROFESSIONAL CHALLENGE FOR THE ENGLISH TEACHER EDGAR ALIRIO INSUASTY Communicative Language Teaching or Communicative Approach (CA) can be defined as one of the most widespread and prevailing pedagogical options to conduct a language lesson. It has brought a lot of important contributions to the professional field of language teaching. To start with‚ let’s mention its emphasis‚ unlike Audiolingual Method‚ on developing learners’ Communicative Competence rather
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EVEN proficient speakers of English often lack necessary pragmatic competence; that is‚ they are not aware of the social‚ cultural‚ and discourse conventions that have to be followed in various situations (Bardovi-Harlig 1999). Research has also been done on the disparity between grammatical and pragmatic competence. However‚ relatively less attention has been paid to how classroom-based instruction can contribute to the pragmatic development of foreign language learners. This article presents
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2 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” - Lloyd Alexander [3]. This quote encapsulates the essence of changing the focus of the mathematics tutorial to action rather than just solving and writing either alone or in small groups. Although‚ students do not always appreciate the journey to a solution‚ particularly an incorrect one‚ this navigation is where learning is occurring. Aspects of Bloom’s
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