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What is Communicative Approach?

1. Learning Theory
Activities that involve real communication promote learning. Meaningful activities ->effective learning.

2. Language Theory
Language is for development of “communicative competence”-> Meaning & function.

3. Teacher & Students’ Role
The teacher is a facilitator and monitor for students’ learning. Students are communicators and active negotiators of meaning.

4. Techniques

• Authentic Materials
• Scrambled sentences
• Language games
• Picture strip story
• Role-plays
• Fill-in-the-gap
• Humanistic Approach