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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role to play to ensure “cultural heritage is preserved through the generations…the Chinese and Tamil languages in these schools don’t just function as a medium of instruction…and also provide a link to the community’s cultural heritage” (Centre for Public Policy Studies‚ 2012). The above explanation offers a brief glimpse into the vernacular education system in Malaysia. According to Patil and Motiram (2013)‚ vernacular refers to the local language spoken by the community. Vernacular medium schools
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discredited at 2 levels 1. Etic level believed that method is dead but 2. Emic level consist of common people and teacher believed that method is still alive. 1st Methods are not gone away‚ nor are they likely to .we want to verify this through 3 reasons. 1. Summarizing what is the situation of method 2. Post methodologist used the problems of method to knock them down. 3. Using the roots of post method in order to knock it down. According to Bell we have
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Q1) Write about your past formal or informal language learning experiences (any which is not your first language).Would you consider them to be effective or ineffective? Give reasons for your answer. A) I had just passed my 4th std and was on vacations to a remote village in Karnataka where my mother was posted as a headmistress for a government primary school. I had no plans of leaving my mother and returning with my father to belgaum and continue with my school . Nevertheless I was cajoled
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LANGUAGE TEACHING AND TRANSLATION The use of translation as an inherent part of FLT was prevalent until early in the present century. The Grammar-Translation method‚ dominant during the first half of the century‚ stressed translation and grammatical analysis‚ and put greater emphasis on accuracy than on fluency‚ preferring academic erudition to communicative competence (Titone& Danesi 1985). At the turn of the century‚ the Grammar-Translation method gradually gave way to the Direct Method
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Literature in the Language Classroom Traditional Approaches The teaching of literature has recently been resurrected as a vital component of English language teaching. Over the past few decades‚ there has been much discussion on the value of attempting to teach any kind of literature‚ whether it be the classics or any imaginative work written in English‚ as part of an English language syllabus. For instance‚ in the sixties and seventies‚ there was a distinct reaction against the use of any literary
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Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) ‘Communicative Language Teaching approach evolves as a prominent language teaching methods and gradually replaced the previous grammar-translation method and Audio-lingual method”. -(Warschauer & Kem 2000) Category Elaboration Note Theory of Language Language is a system for the expression of meaning: primary function-interaction and communication. Theory of Learning Activities involving real communication; carrying out meaningful to the learner
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Using Games in Language Teaching The purpose of this paper is threefold: to discuss reasons for using games in language‚ to give suggestions on when and how to use games‚ and to explain categories for classifying games. Why use games in language teaching Games have long been advocated for assisting language learning. Here are some of the reasons why: 1. Games add interest to what students might not find very interesting. Sustaining interest can mean sustaining effort (Thiagarajan‚ 1999;
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Language Teaching for the Future Andrew Littlejohn Reviewed by Ryan Andhika Pratama Sanata Dharma University Article by Andrew Littlejohn is about social changes may be influencing language teaching in the future‚ especially for secondary school aged material. In his article said that social changes is now begin to affecting language teaching. McCoursebook was one of many “McDonaldisation of Society” just like in his article. McCoursebook standardize the content in learning and make it simple
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Community language learning (CLL) is an approach in which students work together to develop what aspects of a language they would like to learn. The teacher acts as a counsellor and a paraphraser‚ while the learner acts as a collaborator‚ although sometimes this role can be changed. The CLL method was developed by Charles A. Curran‚ a professor of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago.[1] This method refers to two roles: that of the know-er (teacher) and student (learner). Also the method
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