Techniques of Communicative Approach

In this interpretation of Communicative Language Teaching, the heart of the language lesson is the communicative activity itself, and a communicative syllabus would presumably consist of a series of such activities organized round some central principle. It has been enthusiastic in adopting the communicative activity as an exercise type, and most modern courses of English as foreign or second language contain suggestions for “information-gap” activities, role-plays, simulations, language games of various kinds, and so on. Building a course syllabus round interactive communication is, however, more problematical. So far the most successful applications have, again, been those where the communicative purposes of the learners can be specified with some degree of accuracy in advance. The communicative activities that are often applied in language classroom can be listed below:

•　Task-based;

•　Content-based;

•　Group work;

•　Oral presentation;

•　Role play;

•　Simulation;

•　Information-gap;

•Full use of modern equipment, etc.