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COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH [1 record]

Record 1 1985-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Education Theory and Methods
DEF

A reaction to the behaviorist features of the Audiolingual Approach. 1. There is emphasis on communication, or communicative competence (i.e., being able to use the language)....

CONT

A communicative (or functional/notional) approach ... is organized on the basis of communicative functions (e.g. apologizing, describing, inviting, promising) that a given learner or group of learners needs to know and emphasizes the ways in which particular grammatical forms may be used to express these functions appropriately.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
CONT

approche communicative : Visées méthodologiques : mettre en place des situations de communication réelles ou réalistes à partir des intérêts personnels des apprenants. Découpage du contenu linguistique : les fonctions langagières; les notions.

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