The Challenges Of Communicative Language Teaching

By allowing the ELL students to use their native and their second language in reading, and writing it will make them move along this new process. Reading and writing experience should be context related and meaningful in order for them to be effective in their learning, even though, they can transfer the literacy skills that they have obtained in their native language towards their second language while they are exposed to more learning experiences.

English language teaching is an art that requires artistic sensibility and well trained perfectibility. Each stage of English language acquisition will present unique challenges and require unique strategies. It cannot be mastered within a particular period of time. Learning English language will take some years to be mastered. Teaching the international language inside the classroom is very difficult indeed, especially for non native speakers of the language. Various strategies have to be applied for teaching English inside the classroom and to make students use the language outside the classroom. Teaching vocabulary requires more attention. Effective ways of teaching words will enhance learning capability. Mere learning of vocabulary will not make the learning process complete. For an effective mode of communication learners should be taught to use vocabulary in authentic situation. English language teachers need to concentrate on the ways which can help and teach

My experience as an English Language Learner (ELL) has allowed me to gain an understanding that all students are unique. Each student brings different experiences, customs, beliefs, and traditions into the classroom. Therefore, to effectively enhance learning, their background must be given great consideration. For that reason, I will stimulate learning through class lectures, hands-on assignments, classroom discussions, individual assignments, group projects, and technology. By using different methods, all students will have the opportunity for growth, whether they are visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learners.

Guidelines to teaching a foreign language highlight all of these elements. Listening, reading, writing, and speaking are all taught and tested at beginner, intermediate, advanced, and superior levels so that these different learning methods are highlighted and executed at varying levels. Children also learn and are shown new ways of looking at the world through the varying strategies. In fact, correlation studies have shown that “students who have had several years of foreign language do better on SATs, particularly the verbal part” (WALKER). As root words, prefixes, suffixes, conjugation, and noun agreements are taught in new languages, it is easier to see connections to the structure of one’s first language. The knowledge of a language one is raised speaking and understanding is simply obtained through experience. However, learning a second language emphasizes the parts of language that come naturally in the first. It takes self-motivated work and dedication to learn a second language later in life, so the outcome of attaining a comprehensive grasp on a foreign language early on pays off in multiple ways.

One of the best ways to help students learn a second language is to use a variety of settings that promote talk and interaction. These not only help students understand new concepts, but they also help to provide a foundation for learning through reading and writing. Since literacy is part of language, reading and writing develop alongside speaking and listening. Students who spend time talking and listening to each other and working on reading and writing activities are able to develop more proficiency in all language modes.

Integrating, Language Skills, Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing: As a teacher we want to make sure that whatever we teach our students we are covering different language skills, we have to make sure they are listening, so if there is any question they can feel free to ask them, we have to make sure they are speaking we can read aloud and let them talk among them selves

Sometimes more than one method is used to bring out the anticipated outcomes in the language classroom where communication develops the key factor of teaching-learning process. Unless students learn to utilise the classroom method to express thoughts and feelings outside into the real world situations, the learning cannot be effective no matter whatever teaching method is applied in English as a Second Language classroom. Teacher- student role becomes the centre in bringing out the maximum within the limited time in a

Education is the basis and foundation of knowledge for almost every being living in the current world. Due to diversification and adversities, many suitable teaching and learning techniques are being advanced to cater for each and every person’s knowledge quest. Technological advancement has also spearheaded development of education among nations. Professional learning communities, and webinar are some of the trending learning techniques in many developed countries (Marshall, 2002). This manuscript seeks to give a deeper insight on aspects associated with English Language Learners (ELLs) in view of a classroom scenario.

Language learning has many misconceptions. One specific misconception is that second language learning is simpler for young children, but in all actuality language learning is difficult and complex for people of all ages (Ovando and Combs, 2012). The timeframe for acquiring a second language can be lengthy and varying greatly depending on the individual learner (Ovando et al., 2012). Teaching an ELL student to read English can be perplexing often causing the brain to multitask concurrently (Ovando et al., 2012). When instructing literacy there are five components that work together for literacy success: phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, reading comprehension and fluency.

Learning of English and communication skills in high school and colleges has helped in developing positive attitude towards English and thus boost learning process. Students at all levels not only take the initiative to study the language, but also practice it often. Teachers inspire and guide learners to advance their level of proficiency in English. There are various perspectives which this goal is achieved. First, the student’s attitude is determined because it enables the assessment of the effectiveness of the method used for teaching students about the English language (The National Commission

Communicative language teaching (CLT) is based on the idea that language is but a mean for communication, and so its primary goal is to achieve, what is called, communicative competence. For CLT, a good language learner is one who can communicate well in a real life situation that which involves a lot of strategies to keep a meaningful conversation and to avoid any communication gap. Unlike the audio-lingual method, which originally originated from behaviorism, CLT did not have any psychological background. Thus, all that CLT material developers and syllabus designers had was the broad theory that students learn best by doing. It was all based on the general assumption that the “learners’ communicative competence develops automatically through their active participation

According to Cook (2003), the focus of Communicative Language Teaching Method is primarily social. Therefore, its main goal is to enable the learners to communicate successfully in the target language. In order to achieve that goal, the learners have to be communicatively competent. Communicative competence can be defined according to Saville and Troike (2003) as “What a speaker needs to know to communicate appropriately within a particular language community”. Which means that the learners in Communicative Language Teaching method will not only know the vocabulary, phonology and grammar, but also they’ll know how to use the language for several purposes, how to differentiate between the uses of the language depending on the situations and the participants and they’ll able to classify and produce different kinds of texts. In addition, able to do all of these effectively with appropriate, accurate and fluent language (Saville-Troike, 2006, p. 100).

Tests performed within the method of task based learning method give quite positive results in increasing the language efficiency of language learners. In order to make task based learning method more efficient, for L2 learners, certain steps must be taken by the authoritative. Since conversation is the essential part of language and is the keystone of language acquisition thus students must be given tasks in which there is prominent verbal use of the target language and students must be bound to speak in the targeted language and should avoid using L1. For this matter a particular environment must be provided to students which may help them in negotiating in that particular language, like debate competition or presentation sessions which would help them to overcome with their fear of using foreign language in public. In order to keep learners in touch with the targeted foreign language and to improve their speaking skills, learners must be given tasks like tableau representation so that learner may get familiar with the gestures of targeted language and the conditions associated with that particular language because language of any region is directly associated with the culture of that particular region. When we learn the second language, memory plays quite vital role. Memory is one of the features which can be used to foretell the performance of a student,

Having in mind the topic of this article, Nihat (2008) explains the importance of acquiring communicative competences inside the classrooms as an important fact of English Language Teaching. He stated that more than grammatical rules and structures, students should know how to use their second language, in order to

One of the purposes above asks the students to develop their competency in communication both in the oral and written form. The communication skill is obtained through the development of the four language skills, namely listening, speaking, reading, and writing. These four language skills need to be practiced frequently in order to attain the purpose of the curriculum. However, as stated by Harrys and Valette (2003) "Of the four language skills, writing may be considered the most sophisticated". In line with Harrys and Valette, Richards and Renandya (2002) stated that: