Communicative methods in teaching English

New directions in teaching EFL

Plan:
1.The most effective methods.
2.How to structure a suggestopedia course?
3.The silent way of teaching

Dealing with communicative approach, teacher should bear in mind that it is not only dialogues and monologues which make pupils & students speak but also variety of interactive methods, sometimes even created and organized by the teacher.

In the classroom #1

The most effective, tried – and – tested methods are:

• Brainstorming
• Debates

Brainstorming

• Ideas
• Opinion
• Creativity
• Extraordinary preparation & presentation

Debates

• Get rid of doubts
• Erudition
• Critical opinion & remarks
• Personal beliefs
• Listen

This method helps learners to inspire their imagination, be creative and knowledgeable, playing different roles.

Being engaged in this method, pupils/students:

• Think
• Learn how express informed opinion
• Talk for purpose and for fun
• Listen
• Train pronunciation

Suggestopedia

• Accelerated Language Learning

Suggestopedia is a set of learning recommendations used to optimize learning. In theory of language and learning, Suggestopedia is a teaching and learning method by which a language is learned as "the material" based on suggestion.

Suggestopedia Lesson

Lessons using Suggestopedia as a foreign teaching method involves:

• translating texts into the learner’s native language;
• explaining grammar structures explicitly;
• practicing in an imitative way through role plays.

ACTIVITIES

Activities in CLT involve students in real and