| Effective Communicative Methods | | | | Learners learn by doing or in this case, speaking. Avoid |
| The goal of the communicative approach is to have | | | | random corrections of errors and allow students to |
| the student communicatively competent which means | | | | share their ideas. |
| using the language to communicate, which is the most | | | | Information Gap Activities |
| effective way to learn a language. Here are four | | | | The communicative information which is transferred is |
| major principles of communicative methodology for | | | | of the interpersonal (social) type rather than the |
| lesson planning. | | | | factual. |
| Effective Communicative Techniques | | | | Example of a communicative activity: Student A has |
| Know what you are doing. The starting and end point | | | | pictures and student B has words, which when fitted |
| of every lesson should be an operation of some kind | | | | together create a puzzle. In an ideal information gap |
| which the student might actually want to perform in the | | | | activity, both students need to communicative and |
| foreign language. of course, this communicative trigger | | | | share information. |
| for eliciting students' responses should be tailored and | | | | Remember: a mistake is not always a mistake. |
| adapted to meet the students' skills and abilities. | | | | Grammatical and phonological mistakes hamper |
| Example of a communicative activity: Asking open | | | | communication. However, a learner who makes |
| ended questions, wide enough to generate a variety of | | | | mistakes because he or she is trying to do something |
| responses. Relating to current events could be a good | | | | he has not been told or shown how to which he has |
| starting point. | | | | not yet mastered, is not really making a mistake at all. |
| Communicative Learning | | | | |