Richards CLT 1BA

Communicative competence includes the following aspects:

• knowing what grammar and vocabulary to use in certain contexts

• knowing how to compensate for lack of knowledge or skills in communication

• having expertise knowledge about education

• having at least basic knowledge about contemporary world

In recent years learning a language has been seen mainly as:

• learning language rules by heart

• collaboration and negotiation of meaning

• learning from feedback

• interaction

A PPP- based lesson structure

• has no time for free language practice

• is based mainly on teachers' decision about what to teach

• follows the communicative continuum in terms of practice

• is not designed for teaching vocabulary

Aspects of language to consider in a syllabus developing communicative competence:

• communicative aims and purposes

• social roles of the interlocutors

• most frequent errors

• common fun facts about the world to learn

Activities focusing on fluency:

• focus on the formation of the correct examples of the language

• control choice of language

• produce language that may not be predictable

• focus on achieving communication

Ss work in pairs. They have the same pictures and they need to say 5 sentences describing the pictures to their partners. Is this communicative activity?

• Yes

• No

3 core assumptions about CLT are:

• Learners are engaged into interaction and communication

• Learners differ in terms of their aims, abilities and needs.

• The role of the teacher is provider of language and information.

• Language learning also involves analysis of grammar rules

Some of the 8 major changes in approaches to language teaching are:

• Learning is an individual and private activity

• Ss learn a language to develop higher order thinking skills

• By projects and texts ss learn about other areas in the curriculum

• Ss need to follow all the activites in the coursebook closely

Examples of real-world tasks are:

• reading a dialogue from a coursebook in pairs

• providing a solution to a problem in groups

• listening to a story and reading it at the same time (in a coursebook)

• choosing the best online shop to buy shoes

Which one is a TBLT cycle?

• Task-Language point- practice

• Task - practice - task

• Activating schemata - Task - Language point- Task

• Task - feedback - task