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交际法及其在中学口语教学中的应用 尹喜珍 发布时间： 2010-11-3 11:39:18 交际法及其在中学口语教学中的应用 1. Introduction “We live in the world of languages which are used for us to communicate, we need get more and more information from some other countries and communicate with them.” [1] Furthermore, with China’s entering the WTO and successfully bidding for the Olympic games 2008, and “with the development of business transactions around the world, being capable of speaking fluently has emerged recently as one of the basic requirements of modern people in the global village.”[2] However, for a long time, “the nature of the language as a means of communication was ignored in teaching and learning methodology. The emphasis was only put on linguistic and forms without consideration for the nature of language.” [3] Nowadays, in middle school, the process of oral English teaching usually consists of the following steps: first, the teacher gives the setting; next, the teacher presents the common sentence structures; then, the students practise passively. During the whole process, the students only make conversations following the teaching materials mechanically and absorb new knowledge passively, and it is really hard for the teacher to be clear about if the students have really mastered the new knowledge and if they can communicate with each other fluently. Therefore, new teaching approaches need considering. “The communicative language teaching is an innovation in English language teaching. It reveals the social function of language and the essence and goal of foreign language teaching, and it always regards the development of communicative ability as the core of foreign language teaching.” [4] As a new teaching approach, the Communicative Teaching Approach was introduced in China since 1990s. Now, it has become one of the main teaching approaches in the field of foreign language teaching in our country. This paper will make a discussion of Communicative Approach and its application in teaching spoken Engli