COMMUNICATIVE APPROACHAN INTERACTION AND DYNAMIC TEACHING ON REAL LIFE

DEFINITION

The communicative approach is based on the idea that learning language successfully comes through having to communicate real meaning. When learners are involved in real communication, their natural strategies for language acquisition will be used, and this will allow them to learn to use the language.

Example Practicing question forms by asking learners to find out personal information about their colleagues is an example of the communicative approach, as it involves meaningful communication.

LANGUAGE IN USE

The language we speak or write is governed by a number rules, styles and contraints. According to this we quite apart from the meaning we wish to convey, and we have to think how to teach in our school using those four skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing) vinculated with our mission, vision, abilities and methodology.

THEORIES – METHODS - TECNIQUES

Approach: To refer to theories about the nature of language and language learning which are the source of the way things are done in the classroom.

Method: Is the practical realisation of an approach, or types of activities, teachers and learners role.

Procedure: Is an ordered sequence of techniques. Tecnique: Is a single activity that involve the approach. “If the language teacher´s management activities are directed

exclusively at involving the learners in solving communication problems in the target language then learning will take care of itself”

LEARNERS VS TEACHERS

Aptitude and Intelligence: Analyse various ways individual needs and behaviors profiles

Good learner characteristics: Tolerance, high aspirations, perseverance, creative

Learner Styles: Categories a. Convergers: Independant and confident b. Conformist: Prefer to emphasise learning about language over learning to

use it. c. Concrete Learners: They enjoy the social aspects from direct experience. d. Communicative Learners: Comfortable out of class and show a degree

of confidence, interested in social interaction.

MANAGING LEARNING

Three Methods: Developed in the 1970s and 1980s, Suggestopedia, Total Physical Response, Silent Way,

Communicative Language Teaching(CLT): Desire communicate something

Task-based Learning(TBL): Task central to the learning process: Pre task, task, planning, report, language focus

The Lexical Approach: Is based on the assertion that language not traditional language

Methods and Culture: Native speakerism to describe teaching methodology

Making Choices: six strands: Affect, input, output, grammar, cognitive effort

BASIC LEARNING RIGHTS

The Basic Learning Rights (BLRs) un the area English language are an essential tool ensuring quality and equity in education for all children in Colombia. These rights describe the knowledge and skills that students must learn in english class in grades 6° to 11° in the Colombia educational system.

LANGUAGE SKILL

Language abilities are developing communicative competence in English.

This allows promoting communicative situations: Before stages, during stages, after stages.

To be able to evidence the level of performance achieved by students in their language abilities national and international frameworks.

FOCUSING ON TEACHING: SCOPE- SEQUENCE Language study in lesson sequences: The status of language study

depends on why and when it occurs. Scope and Sequence: Describe the curriculum as a matrix of

objectives assigned to the grades(sequence) and group according to a common theme(scope).

Content Scheme: Indicates a list of topics to cover arranged as a scheme.

Modules: Democracy and Peace, Health, Sustainability, Globalization.

CURRICULAR PROPOSAL

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

Language laboratories, videos, computers, power point, web, web 2.0,

3.0 Papers, pens,

blackboard, books, audiocd,photocopiers

Nothing

EVALUATION

Diagnostica Sumativa Formativa