COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH

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Tricky communicative code

MIMICS
GESTURES

cry

WHICH COULD BE A COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGY ?

BREAK UP ( NEGATIVE TRANSFER)

BUILD UP (POSITIVE TRANSFER)

Reflection

What are the difficulties you had to communicate?

Was the code adequate to communicate your information?
Could you develop a communicative competence in your brief chat?

THE COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH

PERI
OD

DECADE

MAIN FEATURES

18801920

II

19201940

READING METHOD (U.S.A./ CANADA)

III

1940
1950

LINGUISTIC APPROACH TO LANGUAGE TEACHING( AMERICAN ARMY METHOD) ,

INTENSIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING
AUDIOLINGUAL , LANGUAGE LABORATORY
CHOMSKYS THEORY , SOCIOLINGUISTICS, METHOD ANALYSIS
( MACKEY 1965)

19501960

REFORM/ DIRECT METHOD - PHONETICS

- BASIC ENGLISH

19601970

IV

19701980

BREAKAWAY FROM METHOD CONCEPT

Language learning
Curriculum
Human relations
NEW METHODS
emphasis
Speech acts
Needs analysis
Discourse
analysis

1980

emphasis
Individualism
Humanistic
techniques

research
emphasis
First and second
languages

COMMUNICATIVE APPROACHES

SILENT WAY
CLT
SUGESTOPEDI
A

LEXICAL, TBL , CLIL,

CALL
ECLECTIC

Communicative
Competence

Communicative
Approach

It is a theory which
starts from
establishing that
language is real
communication

It is the
communicative
approach itself but
applied in
pedagogical terms

Communicative
Language
Teaching

COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCES IN JEC

LINGUISTIC
COMPETENCE
- INDUCTIVE
METHOD (for
gramar)
- Producing
writing texts
- Writing practice
comprehension
- Oral
comprehension
practice
- Understanding
and using
vocabulary
- - language

SOCIOLINGUISTIC
COMPETENCE
- Use of specific
expressions
and idioms
- How to ask
polite
questions
- use of social
rules of the
language
- Cultural
references

STRATEGIC
COMPETENCE
- Overcome
language
gaps through
use of virtual
sesin
- Modify the
handouts
activities
according to
the
audience
and purpose

DISCOURSE
COMPETENCE

- Using
specific
vocabulary to
convey
instructions
- uderstanding
how ideas
are
connected
through
inductive
method
explanation

Communicative Language Teaching

PLANNER

Ts

role

MANAGER

DIAGNOSTICIAN

FACILITATOR

MONITOR
ORGANISER

ADVISOR

Communicative Language Teaching

Ss role
AUTONOMOUS

COMMUNICATOR

NEGOTIATOR

PARTICIPANT

COOPERATOR

COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE
TEACHING
Finally:

It focuses on helping learners to

communicate meaningfully in a target
language.
It emphasizes interaction as both the
means and the ultimate goal of
learning a language.

COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITIES
1. Functional communication
activities:

2. Social interaction
activities:

Describing sequence of events

Conversation
Following directions
Debates
Picture dictation
Role-plays
Information gap
Simulations
Comparing sets of pictures, noting Dialogues
similarities and differences,
Debates
Discovering missing features in a
map or picture
Examples activities:
a.Role play
b.Interview
c.Pair work
d.Group work

COMMUNICATIVES ACTIVITIES THROUGH

JEC LESSON PLANS

BEGINNING

DEVELOPMENT

ENDING

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BEGINNING
DESCRIBING A PICTURE
IDENTIFY PICTURES
MATCH WORDS
PRESENTING A SHORT TEXT OR SENTENCES
DRAWING ACTIVITIES
MIME
GAMES
MOTIVATE THROUGH THE USE OF AUTHENTIC MATERIAL
QUESTIONS

DEVELOPMENT
Describing sequence of events
Following directions
Picture dictation
Information gap
Comparing sets of pictures, noting similarities and differences,
Discovering missing features in a map or picture
Conversation
Debates
Role-plays
Simulations
Dialogues
Debates

Functional Communication Activities

Language learning activities should be done in their real
context so that language learners may not be disgusted
thinking that the language they are learning can not
satisfy any of their real communication needs.

Information-Gap Activities
It is an activity where learners are missing the
information they need to complete a task and need to
talk to each other to find it.

Brings opportunity
for speaking
practice

Represents real
communication

Fosters
motivation

Develops subskill:
clarification and
rephrasing

INFORMATION GAP : PRACTICE ACTIVITIES

Social Interaction Activities

This implies that a competent communicative language
learner is the one who is able to relate the classroom
activities to the social interactions he is often involved
in. This is so because the society is the main application
field of a language. Therefore, every language user
must relate his language to the norms of his society.

AN
INTERVIEW
It is a conversation

between two or more

people, where questions
are asked by the
interviewer to obtain
information from the
interviewee.

Patient

Doctor

JOB
INTERVIEW :
Question and
answer

ROUTINE
CONVERSATION
Question and
answer

Why?

Role play

Quieter students get the chance to express

It is any speaking activity when

themselves in a more forthright way.

you either put yourself into

somebody

else's

shoes,

or

when you stay in your own

It made the whole process more fun and

memorable for the class.

shoes but put yourself into an

imaginary situation!

Real situations can be created and

students can benefit from the practice.

ROLE PLAY : At the

store
You are a customer who is
in a clothing store and want
to buy pants, sweater and
blouses.
Create a conversation between
the seller and the customer,
then socialize in class.

ENDING

ROLE-PLAY
DEBATES
TEL MALOGRADO
INFORMATION GAP ACTIVITIES
OPEN / CLOSED QUESTIONS
GROUP ACTIVITIES
PRESENTATIONS ( EXHIBITION TECHNIQUE)
HOMEWORK

METACOGNITION

QUESTIONS
RUBRICS

USE OF THE NEW APPROACHES

IN JEC

What is Lexical Approach?

Concept

Importance

A method which develops learners

proficiency with words and Word
combinations.

Students are thought to be able to perceive

grammar as well as have meaningful set
uses of words at their disposal when
speaking English

Lewis, Michael (1993) The Lexical Approach.

TYPES OF LEXIS
1. Lexical Chunks

In my opinion,
Id like to order
to make a long story short,
By the way,
at the end of the day,
Do you mind if I
That will never happen to me
Take into consideration,
Just in case,

TYPES OF LEXIS
2. Collocation

LESSON PLAN EXAMPLE JEC

References
The practice of English Language teaching Jeremy Harmer
fourth edition.
Recent Trends in Communicative Language Teaching and Its
Role in the Sultanate of Oman - M. Nagalakshmi, Dr. K. Girija
Rajaram.
Communicative Language Teaching Today Jack C. Richards.
Ellis, Rod. (1994). The Second Language Acquisition. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Ellis, Rod. (1997). Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
EDO Sessions - Edusoft.