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I think Communicative approach has a relation with other methods. When I began to learn English, my teacher used to explain vocabulary and grammar from a text, then we mimick her to read it. Before teaching, she had an introduction which was very interesting. She had a good accent of a speaker of...

Hello, I have to write a course design outline, but I'm a bit confused about the methods. My students are a mixed ability group of 10-14 yr olds. Half of them speak a fair amount of English, and the other half doesn't. I was thinking of using a communicative approach, but I also want to teach...

Hi Endi, When I've taught to a very strict methodology I've seen different patterns to when I've taught with a looser communicative approach. And certainly when I teach people who's previous language learning has been in a 'grammar-translation' tradition I see another set of patterns though I've...

This is true, however, the major fallback for CELTA and DELTA is that they are pro-communicative approach which only works with certain groups of learners. CELTA and DELTA trained teachers are also weak in exam setting and also exam assessments. I would not say that having an MA TESOL is not as...

how to teach grammar at the tertiary level? Teaching Articles and Conjunctions at the tertiary level?

Teaching English as a foreign language is so difficult that many teachers feel confused how to do it. Using CLT is one of language methods that offers a new view and strategy in language teaching. According to its meaning of CLT (Communicative language Teaching) apllies that in teaching and...

You need grammar. That's why we study it. We have to study grammar in order to replace our native kinds of sentences with the sentence structures of the target language. Grammar isn't studied to make teachers seem clever, though plenty of people who should know better think so.

There never really was an approach that did not have successful communication as its end goal. Once upon a time people believed that in order to do that, you had to focus on grammar etc before launching into attempts at communication. However, some old school proponents of a "communicative...

Hai.... i'm doing second year degree in ESL in Malaysia. i just need some help regarding my assignment. 'teaching grammar using communicative approach'.

Hi everyone, I am teaching English Grammar classes and we have a whole grammar section for learners. We are using Mosaic One series, third edition. I know that we need to apply the communicative approach to teach grammar but actually, there are lots of practice exercises in every chapter in the...