INNOVATIVE APPROACHES IN DEVELOPING COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

Communicative Competence1 Communicative Competence: A Comparison of Two Approaches

This article is a comparison of the Natural Approach and Communicative Language Teaching. Using the Richards and Rodgers’ model for conceptualizing approaches and methods described in Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching, 1986, Cambridge University Press, I compare and contrast these two approaches carefully at the level of approach, design and procedure. At the level of approach, I look...

Developing Learners' Second Language Communicative Competence through Active Learning: Clickers or Communicative Approach?

The purpose of this study was to compare the impact of clickers, the communicative approach and the lecture method on the communicative competence development of learners who were taught English a second language (ESL). Ninety nine pupils from three primary schools participated in the study. Quasi-experimental nonrandomised pre-test posttest control group design was adopted for the study. A bat...

Development of Communicative Competence 1 Running head: DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE Development of Communicative Competence Through Private and Inner Speech

Innovative Approaches to Increase Access to Medicines in Developing Countries

Access to essential medicines is problematic for one third of all persons worldwide. The price of many medicines (i.e., drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics) is unaffordable to the majority of the population in need, especially in least-developed countries, but also increasingly in middle-income countries. Several innovative approaches, based on partnerships, intellectual property, and pricing, are...

Developing Innovative Payment Approaches: Finding the Path to High Performance

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, created by the new health reform law, has a mandate to develop innovative payment models to improve health care delivery. To achieve higher quality and slower cost growth, the new center should be prepared to try a variety of approaches that will encourage and reward more integrated care across the health care continuum and work with other public...