5.-) COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING

The Communicative approach does a lot to expand on the goal of creating communicative competence compared to earlier methods that professed the same objective. Teaching students how to use the language is considered to be at least as important as learning the language itself. David Nunan (1991:279) lists five basic characteristics of Communicative Language Teaching:

a) An emphasis on learning to communicate through interaction in the target language.

b) The introduction of authentic texts into the learning situation.

c) The provision of opportunities for learners to focus, not only on the language but also on the learning process itself.

d) An enhancement of the learner's own personal experiences as important contributing elements to classroom learning.

e) An attempt to link classroom language learning with language activation outside the classroom

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