3. Problems with methods. Approaches, Methods and Techniques Approach

COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING.

The late 1960s saw a shift in focus from the audio-lingual method and its prototypes to communicative language teaching, this shift evolved partly as a result of studies carried out by the council of Europe, which began to identify the language needed in a variety of social situations by someone integrating to Common Market countries. The studies sought to evaluate how language itself is used how native speakers of a language express themselves in various situations. The studies had a major impact on the teaching of English as a foreign language. The teachers and curriculum designers began to look at content, at the kind of language needed when greeting or shopping.

The emphasis on form, on explicitly learning grammar rules or practicing grammatical patterns, was downplayed in favorer’s needs when using the language in daily interaction.
There is no single text or authority on communicative language teaching. It’s make communication the goal of language teaching. Several models have evolved around this principle: the Communicative Approach. Total Physical Response, Natural approach, and competency based approach. These approaches overlap.