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A communicative approach in teaching English
Марина Смирнова
© Марина Смирнова, 2021
ISBN 978-5-0053-8817-9
Создано в интеллектуальной издательской системе Ridero
Dear collegues!
This guide is intended to be used by the teacher of English to make their lessons more effective, creative and teach students to communicate and use English in real life.
I have included all the practical aspects of a communicative approach, its main ideas, methods and techniques and provided the examples of tasks for different levels into this brochure.
I have also attached the examples from my own teaching practice which I successfully apply at the lessons.
You can use them and create your own tasks!
The communicative approach. Its principles
The main approaches to teaching English at school today are grammar-translation and communicative ones.
Most teachers use a grammar-translation method the essence of which is to translate everything into Russian, explain grammar in Russian and do exercises which we call «drills» to practise your language skills.
The drawbacks of such an approach are clear to everyone:
– the students do not get used to speaking English as the teacher and they mainly speak Russian at the lessons,
– the students memorise and learn everything by heart without understanding how to use these constructions in real life,
– the language barrier is large as they don’t communicate and don’t pay much attention to speaking and listening to native speakers.
Nowadays the communicative approach has spread largely in schools, and advanced teachers prefer using it.
Its undisputable advantages are:
– lifelike situation at the lessons,
– the creation of the speaking environment,
– the reproduction of all new structures into speech,
– the practical use of the language.
The principles of the communicative approach are:
– imitating real speaking environment,
– speaking English all the time,
– emerging students into communicative situations,
– encouraging students to talk,
– concentrating more on the speech,
– teaching grammar in context,