English - Business Classes for Students who would like to improve knowledge

Apresentação

Duração : 6 months - Preço : R$1200.00 - Local : Mooca (3126007)The Communicative Language Teaching, also called Communicative Approach or Functional Approach was the British version of the movement in the early 60s in reaction to the structuralism and behaviorism embodied in the audiolingualism then predominant.

The new directions in the theory of language aired by Chomsky and an increasing demand for language teaching among the countries of the European Common Market were the thrusting forces behind this methodology. The basic unit of language became not the sentence, but the communicative act. Function rather than form, and meaning rather than pattern determine the designing of materials. Communicative competence rather than grammatical competence is the goal. Language is tentatively subdivided in areas according to functionality.

In my opinion the CLT was an intelligent move towards a more humanistic and learner-centered approach, eventually leading to language acquisition through bicultural human interaction. It will be less effective however if it provides only the artificial role-playing activities in a traditional classroom setting.