COMMUNICATIVE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING: SUGGESTED CLASSROOM PROCEDURE FOR TEACHING SPEAKING

Some misconceptions about Communicative Language Teaching

Although Communicative Language Teaching is accepted by many applied linguists and teachers as the most effective approach among those in general use, there are still a number of misconceptions about what it involves. This article sets out four of the main misconceptions and discusses why they have arisen and why they can be seen as misconceptions. In doing this, the article attempts to define ...

Practical Knowledge Growth in Communicative Language Teaching

Communicative language teaching (CLT) is promoted in teacher education programmes around the world, although the appropriateness of this methodology in contexts outside the English-speaking West has been questioned, often from a theoretical perspective. In fact, very little empirical research has been conducted into the practical knowledge of CLT of non-native speaker teachers of English, and t...

Some misconceptions about communicative language teaching

Although communicative language teaching is accepted by many applied linguists and teachers as the most effective approach among those in general use, there are still a number of misconceptions about what it involves. This article sets out four of the main misconceptions, discusses why they have.arisen, and why they can be so described. In doing this, the article attempts to define some importa...

Applying Innovative Teaching Methods in a Second Language Classroom

This article focuses on the level of using creative teaching methodologies in second language classroom as studied by the researcher. A series of qualitative methods such as using newspaper, media, movies, interpreting advertisements, and creating Sandblot can be employed in the classroom in order to develop students’ second language learning ability. The article focuses on how teach...

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