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Sara1234 Posted 21 years ago
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Communicative English

What do they mean by Communicative English...

Can someone give some examples of how to help students practice Communicative English

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I want to undestand the dialect and way of communication in english community.

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I want to undestand the dialect and way of communication in english community.
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Sara1234What do they mean by Communicative English...

Can someone give some examples of how to help students practice Communicative English

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Get them to talk to each other
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Hi Sara,

Two of the best ways to get students to communicate in class are 1) pair work and 2) group work. I prefer pair work because it forces all students to both speak and listen. Except with very motivated students, group work often leads to one or two students dominating with the others happily letting them do all the work.

Now, when it comes to pair practice, I use two diff
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Joe,
For more advenced students, how do they develop their vocabulary in your exercise ("I will give them a topic or a famous quote")? Or is it only practice for speaking?
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We can help the students to operate with the English language by providing oral speaking activities so that they learn how to speak taking part in conversations, and other exercises to fix the forms of the language...
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Hi Latin,

I don't believe students develop vocab by speaking or writing. As you suggested, all they can do is practice what they have already learned, which is important in itself. They can, however, learn vocabulary from the teacher's feedback after practicing. I always get two or three pairs of students to perform, or at least report on what they've discussed. At that time, I can give t
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Hi,

I dont understand why they make such a hue and cry over communicative English. If one gets a basic education, say for 10 years or so, one will surely be aable to handle effortlessly the language in which he has studied. In the commonwealth countries, if a person gets the basic education that means he is able to handle English as well. All one lacks is lack of practice. You cannot le
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Dear Friend

By Communicative language teaching we mean an umbrella approach to teaching language to second and foreign language students. Philosophically its origin lies in revolutionary work of Chomsky who rejected structural approach and led Dell Hymes develop more progressive outlook to teaching language. Its feature can be assumed as based on the needs of learners, leaner-centric, f
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Well,the Communicative English is one of the prime goals nowadays.You don`t need to know grammar perfectly to communicate with others.If you make mistakes it doesn`t matter that much since the others can understand you.So in todays methodical approaches they put a lot of emphasis on speaking and listening skills in order to prepare people for the everyday life.In my classes(English as a foreign
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0Communicative English is slightly different from formal English. In formal English we observe the grammar rules strictly. Communicative English is the form of English that is used to communicative with each other. in communication you should know how to start, how to continue, how to repair, how to resume and how to close a communication. For this some special skills are reqired. They are gener

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