CLT & The Natural Approach

What does communicative competence involve?

• Knowing how to use language for a range of different purposes

  and functions

• Knowing how to vary our use of language according to the setting and the participants

• Knowing how to maintain communication despite having

  limitations in one’s language knowledge

• All the answers are correct.

Which of the following activities is an example of the CLT approach?

• memorization of dialogues

• practice through controlled activities

• role plays

• drills

The CLT approach claims that materials will only be useful for students if they are 100% authentic.

• True

• False

What language features (Richards, 2006) are missing in this activity? You can choose more than one option.

• setting

• notions

• communicative event

• purpose

Which of the following statements is NOT a CLT asssumption?

• Meaningful communication results from students processing

  content that is relevant, purposeful, interesting, and engaging.

• Effective classroom learning tasks and exercises provide

  opportunities for students to negotiate meaning.

• In order to communicate effectively, students need to know how to produce grammatically correct sentences,

• Learning is facilitated by both inductive and deductive activities.

According to Krashen, "learning a language"...

• ...is a subconscious process.

• ...takes place in a natural setting.

• ...is "knowing about" a language.

• ...is part of our implicit knowledge.

According to Krashen's theory, error correction is useful when acquiring a language.

• True

• False

What does "i + 1" mean?

• The input our students receive should be a little beyond their level.

• The input our students are exposed to should be a little below their current level.

• The input our students are exposed to should only be authentic. It doesn't matter if the structures and language used are completely beyond the learners' level.

Which of the following points supports the Input Hypothesis?

• We first learn structures, then practice using them in communication, and this is how fluency develops.

• Students can understand language that contains structures that they have not yet acquired because of their knowledge of the world and extra-linguistic information they have.

The silent period is a phase in which learners do not produce language, but they are processing it.

• True

• False