Communicative Approach and Its Application
in Middle School Classroom Teaching
Abstract：With the development of our national economy and the entry
of China into WTO, efforts should be made in response to the call of job market for new talents and skills; at the same time, economic globalization makes the communication increasingly frequent around the world. This also challenges our English teaching. A need for a functional command of English in the field of industry, science, and technology, commerce, tourism and so on has been created. As a result, a corresponding change in the methodology of teaching foreign language is also desirable. Therefore, more and more English teachers apply the communicative approach to the English teaching and their teaching result proves that communicative approach is an effective teaching method. The present essay discusses the origin, principles of communicative approach, circumstances of applying this method in Middle School classroom teaching, and how to develop students’ communicative competence.
Key words: communicative approach, application, principle, and communicative competence.
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摘要：中国加入WTO给国人带来新的机遇和挑战，经济全球化促进全球交流
日益频繁，英语已成为国家间交流的必不可少的语言工具。同时，这给外语教学，特别是英语教学方法带来巨大的挑战，越来越多的英语教师将英语交际教学法运用于教学中，教学实践也证明了交际教学法是一种行之有效的方法，交际教学法在中学课堂的可行性尤其明显，它可以充分调动学生的积极性，达到寓教于乐的效果。文章主要谈及交际教学法的起源、原则、目前中学英语交际教学法应用状况、在未来的教学实践中，如何培养学生的交际能力等方向，有着十分深远的意义。
关键词：交际教学法，应用，原则，交际能力
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Contents
Abstract?????????????????????????i
摘要??????????????????????????ii Contents?????????????????????????iii
Introduction???????????????????????1 1. Communicative Approach????????????????1
1.1 The origin of communicative approach??????????1 1.2 Principles of communicative approach???????????2
2. The Circumstance of Present English Teaching???????4
2.1 The adopted methods of English teachers nowadays??????4 2.2 The situation of presentstudents’learning??????????6
3. How to Foster Communicative Competence in Middle School Classroom Teaching???????????????????7
3.1 What is the communicative competence???????????7 3.2 Three principles should obeyed in communicative approach???8 3.3 How to develop students’ communicative competence??????8
Conclusion????????????????????????13 Bibliography???????????????????????14 Acknowledgement???????????????????15
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Introduction
As we know, we are in the period when economy is developing rapidly and international association becomes more frequent. English is our inescapable means of communication, in other words, English has become a kind of language ---Pu tong hua on the earth. Nowadays, students study English in order that they can apply it to real life. Language develops in the process of communicative, so the best way of learning English well is to learn it by communicating. Now how to improve students’ English communicative competence is getting more and more important. In my opinion, the communicative approach to English language teaching is a good method of English teaching in which the teacher become an organizer、a helper、and a judger and the students are the center of teaching. The application of communicative approach to English teaching can not only hasten the process of English teaching but also stimulate the motivation of students’ learning the language. Therefore, what should we do at present is to make the Middle School Classroom a tiny society as well as a place of foreign language teaching.
1.Communicative Approach
1.1 The origin of communicative approach
The communicative approach to English language teaching is also called communicative approach, or National-Functional Approach. It is a kind of
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foreign language teaching founded by Christopher Candi and Henry Widdowson in the late 1960s, in the early 1980s, the Canadian scholar Canale and Swain complemented it and American scholar Bachman furthered its development between the late 1980s and the early 1990s. Since 1960s, the economy in advanced countries has speeded, the communication in all parts of these countries were frequent. At the same tine, the research of language teaching theories had new breakthrough. In order to satisfy the increasingly necessity of society, a new language teaching method ---the Communicative approach was produced.
1.2 Principles of communicative approach
The communicative approach seeks to overcome the weakness of the traditional approach and come up with new innovations. It incorporates present cardinal learning theories and reflects the law within linguistic, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic theories. This approach advocates the following principles, which will guide language learning and teaching.
a. Pay emphasis on developing the communicative competence that includes the linguistic competence; the knowledge of forms and the knowledge of the functions language is used for. It stresses language use rather than language form.
b. It has a tendency to favor fluency-focused rather than accuracy-focused activities. Students acquire language form through appropriate language input and meaningful classroom interaction.
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交际法在中学英语课堂教学中的应用
