Q & A on Communicative Teaching

The language is defined as “human communication through the use of spoken or written words,” but that definition must include that language is also a cultural identity – “the fact of being who or what a person or thing is”. In other words, the language provides information about your roots; it is one of the most valuable resources to communicate with your mother culture.

Language is an extremely important part of culture, but also spreads, develops, and changes over time. Language is a part of culture and can be used to define a culture. Language can be diffused in many ways. Today there are thousands of languages that are constantly being spoken and spread around the world. An example would be Singapore or South Africa. Singapore and South Africa are two completely different countries located in completely different parts of the world, yet both of their official languages is English. Languages can be spread and changed over

For the past twelve years, COM 434 Radio/TV Practicum has gone through many changes, but the learning that goes on in the classroom and in the television studio remains the same. The Calumet Roundtable is a unique class, giving students a real world experience in the field of television production. The organizational communication of this course has shifted throughout the semester each teaching individuals various lessons: having inadequate note for your superior or talent is going to affect the outcome; hiding information from your supervisors is never a beneficial thing because it reflects negatively on them; abusing your power is unethical for personal gain; and every leader has different personality and unique managing styles. Considering

　　　　Language is an essential part of our daily lives. Language is used to communicate with other people to meet our needs and satisfy our understandings. Everyone uses one language or another. Some have an advantage and are able to use

Taking this lead, we developed lessons that invited students to apply their intuitive knowledge and

Language: enables people in the community to have an effective communication system- ultimate bond that holds them together. Language gives community members a way to express specific feelings, thoughts, and ideas, which is crucial to their survival and essential for effective

An Effective Communicator is someone who develops effective communication skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. They also develop communication skills appropriate to the setting and the audience. To me, an effective communicator would be someone who can demonstrate their point to the person or audience they’re talking to. Communication is the key and first step to make things clear. Therefore, Communication skills will help you get through many challenges in many ways.

Language is the tool that can create nations as well as divide culture, countries, and people. The use of language is important in establishing identities. For people like Anzaldua it can strengthen an identity while for people Fanon mentioned it strips a person of their identity and replaces it with the superior language and culture. Language is constantly changing and expanding, which in turn causes identities, cultures, and nations to change and expand as

As teachers is it pressingly important that they should have a strong knowledge and understanding of language and how to develop it for their students as language needs to be developed for themselves but also the knowledge that it can be different for all.

The theoretical framewok that informed my instructional design for developing my students ' communicative competency in Spanish is the work of Helena Anderson Curtain and Carol Ann Dahlberg "Languages and Children, Making the Match (2004)" which "...emphasize the importance of a thematic center to support comprehension, providing a context to involve students in use of the target language". Their theory links to my planning and instructions as I use a thematic center on health to achieve the learning objectives and allow students to engage in conversations. My instructional design is also inform by the Howard Gardener 's theory on multiple intelligences (Gardner, Howard. Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. New York: Basic, 1983. Print.) which postulates that students learn information through a variety of sensory modalities. My theoretical framework is also inform by the dual-coding theory developed by Mark Sadoski and Allan Paivio (Sadoski, Mark, and Allan Paivio. Imagery and Text: A Dual Coding Theory of Reading and Writing. Mahwah, N.J: L. Erlbaum Associates, 2001. Print.) as well as the Total Physical Response (TPR) teaching method developed by Professor James Asher (Asher, James. James Asher 's Total Physical Response [TPR]. Print.) and Stephen Krashen’s theory of comprehensible input i+1 (Krashen, Stephen "Stephen Krashen 's Theory of Second Language Acquisition" 2007. Print.) Based on these theoretical frameworks I will plan my instruction so that it

Language is the main means in which we are able to express our needs, thoughts, feelings, beliefs and desires through words, gestures, and symbols; it allows us to communicate, connect and create relationships with others. It is also a vehicle for asserting our culture. Culture is made up of the characteristics of particular groups of people and can be expressed through religion, social habits, food, arts, and language. Our cultural heritage influences all aspects of our lives and shapes how we use language to interact with and interpret the world around us. It is through this critical lens that the interdependence of culture and language becomes clear: culture is expressed through language and language is influenced by culture. Taking this knowledge into account, it is obvious that the successful learning a new language must include a growing familiarity with its culture to provide a holistic and valuable understanding. Although it is not necessary to comprehend a culture to employ the mechanics of a language and speak it, meaningful communication in the language is limited in many ways by cultural knowledge and understanding.

Meanwhile, they missed their chance to participate in giving initiation and followup. Also, the fact that teachers are still dominant in interactions indicates that

In the beginning of this module I knew the importance of language in the sense of its importance for communication with people and the world. I have always loved to tell stories and being able to write down what I had to say was made possible through language. Language has always been important to me. I just never knew that language can have such a major impact on my identity and that it has had a far more important influence on life than people give it credit for.

Juliana Chan, in one of her articles published on CULTURE, SOCIETY AND THE STATE IN ASIA forum says, “The primary function of languages is undoubtedly to facilitate interaction among people who may or may not come from different cultural background.”

In this essay we will look at different perspectives of language viewed as an object devoid of the social context of its creation and use. However, language becomes truly meaningful only when it’s combined with human interaction. We will also be analysing the socio-cultural understanding of language and the socio-linguistic definition of language. The effects of language as a socio-cultural phenomenon and the implications for teaching language in the class