文档介绍：WHERE MUNICATIVE LANGUAGE E FROM?
Its origins are many, in so far as one teaching methodology tends to influence the next. municative approach could be said to be the product of educators and linguists who had grown dissatisfied with the audiolingual and grammar-translation methods of foreign language instruction.
They felt that students were not learning enough realistic, whole language. They did not know how municate using appropriate social language, gestures, or expressions; in brief, they were at a loss municate in the culture of the language studied. Interest in and development municative-style teaching mushroomed in the 1970s; authentic language use and classroom exchanges where students engaged in munication with one another became quite popular.
In the intervening years, municative approach has been adapted to the elementary, middle, secondary, and post-secondary levels, and the underlying philosophy has spawned different teaching methods known under a variety of names, including notional-functional, teaching for proficiency, proficiency-based instruction, municative language teaching
WHAT MUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING?
Communicative language teaching makes use of real-life situations that munication. The teacher sets up a situation that students are likely to encounter in real life. Unlike the audiolingual method of language teaching, which relies on repetition and drills, municative approach can leave students in suspense as to the e of a class exercise, which will vary according to their reactions and responses. The real-life simulations change from day to day. Students' motivation to es from their desire municate in meaningful ways about meaningful topics.
Margie S. Berns, an expert in the field municative language teaching, writes in explaining Firth's view that "language is interaction; it is interpersonal activity and has a clear relationship with society. In this light, language study has to look at the use (function) of language in context, bo