The communicative Approach (1970-1980)
people were encountering situations where they needed to speak a foreign language more frequently for work or for travel.
These people didn't have the luxury of time required by the comprehension approach.
And needed to learn to communicate effectively in the target language.
왜 언어를 배우는 가 - language is a way to get to know different people. I can communicate with you and
learn more about you. it's all about connecting people together. Language is a portal, it's a gateway.
It's a way to understand someone and create a global society of friends.
어떻게 가르치나 - being always interested in using new strategies and new techniques. To love to stay up on the latest in technology and teacher strategy.
To read a lot of blogs and even a few journals to make sure my techniques are well accepted.
A teacher should make learning fun and interesting. the teacher can use games, high interest topics,
field trips, mobile devices, and websites.
Whatever it takes to keep students engaged and interacting in the language.
Teachers need to know about lots of different things as well.
This gives teachers using this approach a lot of freedom in what they do in the classroom and how they help their students acquire language.
Gamification and fun techniques have become a staple of the communicative approach.
단점 - the communicative approach is so broad that perhaps, one of its biggest problems is that no one can definitively say, what it's techniques and practices are? Furthermore, there is so much information today that it is hard to know where to look. And yet one more difficulty is that teachers are given not only many different strategies, but many different groups with different purposes, different learning styles and teachers are expected to be experts of all of these different contexts. So some people feel the communicative approach really doesn't have clear boundaries.
Authentic materials
teachers in the communicative approach try to make the language practice in the classroom as close to the real world as possible.
Sequencing activities
To help learners understand and use the communication cues, teachers give students dialogues or paragraphs with the sentences mixed up. And have them put the sentences or utterances back in the correct order
language games
information gap
role plays