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Characteristics of Communicative Language Teaching Approach: What Are The Challenges of Teaching Productive Skills?

The Communicative Language Teaching Approach focuses on: 1. Using language as a means of communication rather than just studying its structure. 2. Ensuring language learning involves interaction and communication between students. 3. Creating a low-pressure environment where students are motivated to use the target language and not afraid of making mistakes. Accuracy is judged in the context of communication rather than in the abstract.

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Characteristics of Communicative Language Teaching Approach: What Are The Challenges of Teaching Productive Skills?

The Communicative Language Teaching Approach focuses on: 1. Using language as a means of communication rather than just studying its structure. 2. Ensuring language learning involves interaction and communication between students. 3. Creating a low-pressure environment where students are motivated to use the target language and not afraid of making mistakes. Accuracy is judged in the context of communication rather than in the abstract.

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Characteristics of Communicative Language Teaching Approach

1. Language is a system for the expression of meaning.

2. The primary function of language is for interaction and communication.

3. The structure of language reflects its functional and communicative uses.

4. The primary units of language are not merely its grammatical and structural features, but
categories of functional and communicative meaning as exemplified in discourse.

5. Dialogues, if used, center around communicative functions and are not normally
memorized.

6. Drilling may occur, but peripherally.

7. Comprehensible pronunciation is sought.

8. Judicious use of native language is accepted where feasible.

9. Translation may be used where students need or benefit from it.

10. Teachers help learners in any way that motivates them to work the language.

11. Language is created by the individual, often through trial and error.

12. Fluency and acceptable language is the primary goal: Accuracy is judged not in the
abstract but in context.

13. Students are expected to interact with other people, either in flesh, through pair and
group work, or in their writings.

2. What are the challenges of teaching productive skills?

- The productive skills are speaking and writing


- inhibition – fear of making mistakes, losing face, criticism; shyness;

• nothing to say – learners have problems with finding motives to speak,

formulating opinions or relevant comments;

• low or uneven participation – often caused by the tendency of some

learners to dominate in the group;

• mother-tongue use – particularly common in less disciplined or less

motivated classes, learners find it easier or more natural to express

themselves in their native language.

-Why writing is difficult? • • •

Psychological problems: We are required to write on our own, without the possibility of
interaction or the benefit of immediate feedback

Linguistic problems: The language used in written language is different in most ways from the
language used in speech
Cognitive problems: Students have to organise thoughts on paper, for reasons that may not
immediately be apparent (tasks imposed by the teacher, for homework, for exam, but most
probably not for any personal reason).

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