THE COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Uzdanica XVII 2 (2020), (str. 7-17)

AUTOR(I): Biljana B. Radić-Bojanić

E-ADRESA: radic.bojanic@ff.uns.ac.rs

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DOI: 10.18485/uzdanica.2020.17.2.1

SAŽETAK:

The Communicative Approach in foreign language learning has occurred in a sociohistorical context when larger numbers of people were granted the possibility to learn foreign languages and it has relied on the concept of communicative competence whose main focus was fluency. This radical change in the teaching paradigm meant a step away from the dominant Grammar-Translation Method, but the Communicative Approach also differed from other more similar methods in the field of foreign language learning (e.g. the Audiolingual Method and the Natural Approach). This paper offers a description and a critical assessment of the linguistic framework upon which the Communicative Approach was based, but it also lays out its main aims and principles that have changed over time. Finally, the paper also discusses unresolved issues surrounding the Communicative Approach, which concern the treatment of grammar and students’ varying cultural backgrounds that collide with its basic principles.

KLJUČNE REČI:

the Communicative Approach, communicative competence, fluency, accuracy, learner-centred, teacher-centred, culture

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