Communicative language teaching : an introduction / William Littlewood.
By: Littlewood, William.
Series: New directions in language teaching. Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981Description: x, 108 pages ; illustrations ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0521281547 (pbk.).Subject(s): Language and languages -- Study and teaching | Communicative competenceDDC classification: 418.007 L73 Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contentsItem type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 96-106.
What is communicative ability
Relating forms to meanings
Communicative activities: some general considerations
Functional communication activities
Social interaction activities
Listening activities
Choosing what to teach
A communicative approach
This book is intended for teachers who are familiar with the basic techniques of teaching a foreign language and who would profit by suggestions on helping learners acquire a general communicative ability, which would enable them to cope with everyday situations. The starting point is a discussion of a communicative view of language and language learning, combining the functional view of language with the structural view and giving a description of communicative ability. Chapters 2 through 6 discuss some ways in which familiar activities, such as drills, can be adapted to help learners relate language forms more clearly to their communicative functions. These chapters present functional and social communication activities through which learners can increase their ability to convey meanings with the foreign language, and activities for developing learners' listening skills. Chapter 7 considers how a communicative approach might affect decisions about the content of a course. Finally, chapter 8 draws some threads of the discussion together and considers some more general implications of a communicative approach to foreign language teaching. (Author/AMH)
College of Arts and Sciences Bachelor of Arts in Communication
Text in English
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