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Communicative language teaching
What is CLT?
Grammar competence is often not a top priority
The teacher being a facilitator or instructor
The goal is the ability to communicate in the target language
non-methodical system
Why is CLT considered an approach rather than a method?
CLT is considered as an approach and not a method since it is compatible with many teaching methods.
Advantages and disadvantages of CLT
ADVANTAGES
Communicative approach is much more pupil-orientated, because it is based on pupils’ needs and interests.
Communicative approach seeks to personalise and localise language and adapt it to interests of pupils. Meaningful language is always more easily retained by learners.
Seeks to use authentic resources. And that is more interesting and motivating for children.
Children acquire grammar rules as a necessity to speak so is more proficient and efficient.
DISADVANTAGES
Another disadvantage is that the CLT approach focuses on fluency but not accuracy..
The Communicative Approach often seems to be interpreted as: “if the teacher understands the student we have good communication” but native speakers of the target language can have great difficulty understanding students.
It pays insufficient attention to the context in which teaching and learning take place
Teaching unplugged
What is teaching unplugged?
Dogme in English Language Teaching
Unplugged is a fairly new movement in the EFL field which supports teaching without materials.
ADVANTAGES
Why avdantage?
Focus is one hundred per cent on the students’ actual language needs.
Never waste time on annoying technical difficulties that can take up a surprising amount of class time
Great for teachers who don't have access to loads of resources
Whole lessons can be planned anywhere, anytime; or planning can be done away with altogether
This in turn brings down barriers that exist between the teacher and students
Comfort for learners who struggle with listening
The teacher has a possibility to grade language used when speaking
The content can be adjusted to suit learners’ needs and interests
One of the tasks can be used to raise learners’ awareness to false starts, not frequently found in recorded materials
Develops learners’ autonomy
Encourages teachers to develop skills to deal with learners emergent needs
DISADVANTAGES
Might favor native-speaker teachers
Extremely difficult to countenance in large classes
Syllabuses are necessary organizing constructs, and materials such as coursebooks
Teaching involves more than talking.
It is unclear to what the term “conversation” is referring
Why?
Coursebooks are highly valuable by teachers and students alike for a variety of reasons
When I teach, I certainly do more than talk, and that is why teachers around the world still have students attending their classes” – Angeles Clemente
Philip Chappel suggested that some group talk leads to productive language, but not all.
How?
Omit things that don’t fit:
We can use a coursebook in the way that its writers have
We can leave things in the book out which are not appropriate for our students
We may decide to omit some material which not interest or inform their students.
Replace things with our own choices
:
We can replace in the coursebook with better material for us and our students
Adapt and add things:
Adapting what we find which can make the contents come alive and useful for our students