Modern Approaches to Foreign Language Teaching: World Experience

• Authors: Oleksandr Shumskyi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The problem of applying communicative approach to foreign language teaching of students in non-language departments of higher education institutions in a number of countries has been analyzed in the paper. The brief overview of main historic milestones in the development of communicative approach has been presented. It has been found out that “communicative era” in foreign language training of students is already over and the year 2000 has ushered in a “postcommunicative era” which is characterized by reconsidering the basic features of communicative approach and trying to review the generally accepted belief in the unquestionable effectiveness of this approach. It has been noted that communicative approach, based on interactive methods of teaching and creating the atmosphere of natural language environment at class, forms the doctrine of language training in the USA, Malaysia, Serbia, Croatia and in most of West European countries. In China and Saudi Arabia communicative approach to foreign language teaching is combined with traditional method in order to develop all kinds of speech activity. It has been substantiated that minimizing grammar component of students’ foreign language training in favour of forming only communicative skills has brought to fluent but grammatically incorrect speech. It has been proved that the effectiveness of foreign language teaching to a considerable degree depends on applying the integrated training system based on traditional didactics and communicative approach.

Keywords

EN

foreign language teaching; communicative approach; traditional method; grammar structure; communicative competence; interactive training; natural language environment; foreign language proficiency

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Comparative Professional Pedagogy
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 41-46

Dates

published

2016-03-01

online

2016-03-17

Contributors

author

Oleksandr Shumskyi

• Kharkiv National Automobile and Highway University, Ukraine, Address: 25 Petrovskoho St., Kharkiv, 61002, Ukraine

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/rpp-2016-0006