Communicative Language Teaching 沟通式教学概要1.pptVIP

Current communicative approaches Communicative Language Teaching Background Approach Design Procedure Conclusion Xu Fanqin Zhang Qin Li Ming Miao Qingqing Cao Yindi Shu Guili Background Origins: changes in the British language teaching tradition dating from the late 1960s. British applied linguists began to call into question the theoretical assumptions underlying Situational Language Teaching. Noam Chomsky: Syntactic Structures(1957) current standard structural theories of language---incapable to account the creativitiy and uniqueness of individual sentences . British applied linguists: emphasize on the functional and communicative potential of language. E.g. Christopher Candlin and Henry Widdowson: British functional linguists; American work in sociolinguistics; work in philosophy. Changing educational realities in Europe interdependence of European countries; learning of the major languages of ECM; promoting language education; formation of the International Association of Applied Linguistics 1971: a group of experts, develop language courses on a unit-credit system 1972: Wilkins, a functional or communicative definition of language Two types of meaning behind the communicative use of language: notional categories and categories of communicative function Notional Syllabus: a significant impact on the development of Communicative Language Teaching---used by the Council of Europe for a first-level communicative language syllabus Approach Theory of Language The Communicative Approach in language teaching starts from a theory of language as communication. The goal of language teaching is to develop what Hymes referred to as “communicative competence.” Chomsky’s theory Linguistic theory is concerned primarily with an ideal speaker-listener in a completely homogeneous speech community,who knows its language perfectly and is unaffected by such grammatically irrelevant conditions as memory limitation,distractions,shifts of attention and interest,and errors(rand