Innovative Method of Learning English Grammar Through Communicative Language Teaching

Innovative Method of Learning English Grammar Through Communicative Language Teaching

by Thilagavathy. R and Dr. K.Ravindran
An English teacher plays an important role in English at all levels. When English is taught obviously, some methods have to be followed. There are five methods in English Language Teaching, such as Grammar Translation Method, Direct Method, Audio Lingual Method, Situational Language Teaching and Communicative Language Teaching. Among all Communicative Language Teaching is one of the new approaches. The aim of this approach is to develop learner‟s four basic language skills such Listening, Speaking, Reading, & Writing in English. According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia, Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is an approach to the teaching of second and foreign languages that emphasizes communication or interaction as both the means and the ultimate goal of learning a language”. Communicative Language Teaching refers to both processes and goals in classroom learning. The central theoretical concept is “Communicative Competence”. The idea of communicative competence is one of the most influential theoretical developments in language education. In Communicative Language Teaching, language learning emphasizes learning to communicate as opposed to learning a set of grammatical rules. It has been widely accepted as an effective way of teaching language in ESL/EFL context. The most recognized features of CLT by David Nunan‟s are an emphasis on learning to communicate through interaction in the target language, opportunity to focus on the learning management process, introduce learning situation, personal experience, and language activities outside the classroom. It often takes a form of fluency-based activities and develops language functions and pronunciation focused activities. Assimilating Grammar for CLT From education to leadership and social life to employment opportunity only grammar skills are useful. Communicative Language Teaching has brought a reintroduction emphasis on the role that semantics plays in the definition of language. Communicative Language Teaching is fundamentally concerned with „making meaning‟ in the language. Viewing grammar with all of its components help the leaners understand the complexity of what it means to know the grammar of a language. While teaching the grammar parts like tense, prepositions, determiners, question tags etc., in traditional method students find it hard to understand. Most of the researchers questions or always be in debate whether the grammar should be taught explicitly or implicitly as the two methods links in teaching grammar. The two methods that link in teaching grammar are deductive method and inductive method. Of which deductive methods is traditionally associated with the dreaded grammar where the rules are presented to the learners first and the examples illustrating the rules later and the inductive method is closely link with the Communicative Language Teaching approach which present the example sentence first and then encourage the learners to discover the rules from the example. More on http://ijellh.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/19.-THILAGAVATHY.-R-PAPER-final.pdf