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d. Communicative classroom activities Communicative Language Teaching Definition 1 Background 2 Approaches 3 Advantages and disadvantages 4 Contents Communicative language teaching: The communicative language teaching is an approach to foreign or second language teaching which emphasizes that the goal of language learning is communicative competence. Definition communicative competence :entails knowing not only the language code or the form of language, but also what to say to whom and how to say it appropriately in any given situation. communicative competence includes knowledge of what to say, when, how, where, and to whom. Communicative competence Hedge discuss five main components of communicative competence. Namely, linguistic competence, pragmatic competence, discourse competence, strategic competence , fluency. Communicative competence 1. The decline of Situational Language Teaching in Britain. During the 1970s, some British applied linguists began to call into question the theoretical assumption underlying Situational Language Teaching. 2、British applied linguists: the functional and communicative potential of language. The need to focus in language teaching on communicative proficiency/competence rather than on mere mastery of structures 3、Changing educational realities in Europe. 4、Notional syllabuses .（Wilkins 1976） Background Listening and speaking: Students should have the opportunities to listen and produce what is meaningful, authentic ,unpredictable and creative if ever possible. For listening, the learners must be motivated by a purpose, which determines what meanings he must listen for and what parts of the spoken text are more important for him. Approach b. Reading is to extract the meaning or the message, and for different purposes, the student use different skills such as skimming and scanning etc. c. Students should practice writing what people write in reality and write in the way people write in reality. The