Learning Reflections 15 Seminar in English Language Teaching

Today, we learned about Communicative approaches.

 Communicative approaches were influenced by functional linguistics.
-Goal
To enable learners to develop communicative competence in order to use the target language in communication.
-Teacher’s role
Been and Candlin specifics a variety of role:

•   Facilitator
•   Interdependent participant
•  organizer of resources, a resource, and a guide
•   Researcher

Richard and Rodger

• Analyst
• Counselor
• Group process manages

Learner-centeredness  has four central characteristics:

1.       Learner participant in the whole process of the course content and selecting learning procedures

2.       Learner participant in the design of language activities

3.       Learner are encouraged to take responsibility to a great degree of their learning

4.       Enhancing learner autonomy

Constraints of CLT

-          Focus on fluency over accuracy

-          Learner and teacher roles

-          Cultural appropriacy: ESL and EFL

-          Student’s lack of target language exposure

-          Traditional teaching and learning culture

-          Teacher expertise and student English proficiency level

-          Lack of learning resource/ support

-          Class size

Teacher assign us to read about Sociocultural Theory of Vygotsky and  “ The relevance and implications of Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory in the second language classroom of MAMOUR CHOUL TURUK”.

I think there are the best method for everyone, so teacher have to use the method to teach study in appropriate way.