Unit 1 Handouts
Thoughts on Communicative Language Teaching
- Our job is to help students acquire the ability to communicate in English.
- Meaning + Interaction = Communication.
- There needs to be a meaning gap for communication to take place.
- If you always know what your students are going to say you are not practising real communication with them.
- Real meaning is personal meaning.
- We have spent too much time putting our words (or the textbook’s words) into our students’ mouths.
- We need to find ways of enabling students to put their own words into their mouths.
