As english teacher I have always wondered about the best way or method to help my students to develop communicative competence, but for sure there are no magic wands to get it. The best thing that we can do is to provide the motivation to learn.
In colombia and many other countries around the world it is vey common to find "english teachers" that still continue using the old method of grammar translation, maybe they haven not realised that there are more effective ways of teaching. We have to place our students in a real life situation in order to make them express their ideas and opinions about what is significant. I think that we must bring to our classrooms different contents, also open debates about interesting topics which make them feel confident to speak about. We can not say that teaching language structures is not important,but it is something that we can teach while we develop a class project, or any other activity focused on communicative competence, like plays, oral presentations, videos, essays, etc (speaking and writing skills)
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Meaningfulness plays an important role in language teaching. In factm, in classroom situations, it does appear to be development of the communicative competence if there is no real communication in the learning opportunities provided by the teacher.
Now, as you mention, we cannot forget about grammar either. Littlewood (2004) calls the sort of activities where Ss practice the formal aspects of the language "enabling tasks". These tasks develop the linguistic competence, which is part -as we read- of the communicative competence.
Norbella
I´m just gonna tell you, thought you`re an excellent teacher. very creative for sure.
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