Communicative Approach at the English lessons.
,,The task of the excellent teacher
is to stimulate apparently ordinary
people to usual effort.The tough
problem is not in identifying winners:
it is in making winners out of
ordinary people”
K. Patricia Cross
The communicative methodology is one of the most effective
means in ELT(English Language Teaching).
The Communicative Approach focuses on performance(the
ability to use the language).In this approach real uses of language,especially social uses,are the priority. The CA teachers
the students to become communicatively competent, to be able to use the language appropriately in a given social context,and to
manage the process of negotiating meaning.
The Communicative Approach presupposes a different role of the teacher in the teaching process. The teacher facilitates the students’learning by promoting student-student interactive
situation more than teacher-student interaction.As a facilitator,
he has many roles to fulfill.The teacher is a manager of
classroom activities.In this role,one of the teacher’s responsibi-
lities is to establish situations likely to promote communication.
During the activities,the teacher acts as an advisor,answering
students’questions and monitoring their performance.At other times,the teacher can be a co-communicator and participates in activities together with the pupils.In general,the role of the teacher is a less dominant one,providing a less teacher-centred classroom environment.
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The Communicative Approach changes the role of students in the learning process.The students are viewed as communica-
tors and responsible managers of their own learning.They are
actively engaged in negotiating meaning and trying to make
themselves understood,even when their knowledge of the target
language is incomplete.They learn to communicate by commu-
nicating.
The CA assings a different role to language.The CA rein-
forces students’understanding about the usefulness of the
language they are studying.Students are expected to realize that they can do real things by using the language.Total immersion
in the English language is encouraged.
The Communicative Approach views the function of the
classroom differently.The activities in the classroom are orga-
nised around real-life situations in which what to say is more
important than how to say it.A lot of Groupwork,of Pairwork
is encouraged.Pairwork is the most basic communicative task which allows learners to interact independently in the classroom.
It can be adapted to many different purposes:
-exchanges of opinion,and comparisons of personal experience;
-planning writing;
-problem-solving activities.
Pairwork ensures maximum participation by increasing the pro-
portion of student-talking-time to teacher-talking-time.It is my
responsibility to provide learners with opportunities to use
language for practical purposes in the classroom.Pairwork en-
courages learner independence. Pairwork lets students work at their own pace,and so caters better for individuals in mixed-abi-
lity classes.When it comes to grammar,two heads are better than
one! Pairwork encourages co-operation not competition.Clearly,
well-motivated pupils in small classes in the village school can
develop their communicative abilities to a high level through
carefully chosen pairwork task.
Groupwork is very effective in ELT.It bases on three prin-
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-simultaneous cooperation;
-positive dependence one from another;
-individual evaluating.
For the role correlation it is desirable to share roles among the
members of the group.My pupils like this work very much.
They elect :
-facilitator –it is responsible for observing all the rules of com-
munication.It leads the process;
-observer-keeps the discussion in the limits of problem;
-secretary-notes main ideas and facts;
-timekeeper-observes the time;
-speaker-sounds the results.
I always evaluate all the members of the group.
The main Communication Guidelines.
-I encourage students to be self-disciplined and creative.
I am a teacher. I am the most fortunate of all who labor.I am
a teacher and thank God for it every day.
My living motto is ,,Doing something-do your best”.
1.Always try for eye contact before speaking.Obtain your
pupil’s attention and than speak.
2.Create the climate for communication.
3.Children learn best from real experiences with another child
describing what they are doing.
4.Follow the pupil’s interest and respond to their leads.Be a good listener.
The Communicative Approach employs different teaching techniques.Pupils use the language in such activities as games,
role-plays and problem-solving tasks.Authentic materials are widely used.
The CA sets different priorities for teaching the four basic language skills:speaking,listening,reading and writing.
I presented my experience in the magazine ,,English
language at junior school”№3 (76),2011.The article ,,Tests for
reading.4 form”.Every year my students take part in a regional
Olympiad of English language.The pupil of our school Vitalia
Loboda was the prize-winner in 2008,2009.In 2010 the pupils of
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Pogarshchyna took part in the all-Ukrainian competition of English language,,Greenwich”.The high result had the pupil of the 9 th form Izumenko Oleksandr.The pupil of our school Vita
Sholudko was noted in the All-Ukrainian share,,The wide world
of Shakespeare’s sonnets”.
My teacher characteristics are:
-I try to be consistent in what I say and do;
-I adhire my professional commitments;
-I have high expectations of all students;
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