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...

Since the introduction of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), many textbooks have been written to incorporate communicative activities, authentic materials and personalized contexts. However, where the teaching and learning of grammar is concerned, most textbooks do not reflect CLT principles. As demonstrated in this paper, grammar activities in some Malaysian and Taiwanese textbooks retain ...

In this article, authors talk about the relevance of the training of foreign students in verbal-nominal combinations in different spheres of functioning. It is important for language adaptation. Language adaptation depends on how students know the system of language and the feature of language expression of sense. Verbal-nominal combinations are used in different spheres therefore they can be s...

Despite its dominance in the field of teaching English as a second/foreign language, implementation Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach continues to be challenging and problematic. A similar set constraints – including but not limited challenges related educational cultures, contextual conceptual factors, lack authentic materials facilities have been reported factors hindering CLT im...

This paper discusses intercultural communicative competence (ICC) education in the context of Sino-Foreign Institutes (SFIs). Through an overview development internationalization higher China, puts forward four strategies that are widely adopted to facilitate students ICC. The provision ICC specific courses, integration subject with foreign language education, and activities projects. Towards e...

A major open question in natural language research is the role of communicative efficiency in the origin and on-line processing of language structures. Here, we use word pairs like chimp/chimpanzee, which differ in length but have nearly identical meanings, to investigate the communicative properties of lexical systems and the communicative pressures on language users.If language is designed to...

Although communicative language teaching is accepted by many applied linguists and teachers as the most effective approach among those in general use, there are still a number of misconceptions about what it involves. This article sets out four of the main misconceptions, discusses why they have.arisen, and why they can be so described. In doing this, the article attempts to define some importa...

nowadays using new technologies in education is one of important challenges of educational associations. using new technologies cause increase of efficiency in education. in this paper, the place of it in education of 4 language skills has analyzed and difficulties of arabic language students in related courses have discussed. using computer, educational software, internet and other equipments ...

There are different views on the relationship between language and culture. Some consider them as separate entities one being a code-system and the other a system of beliefs and attitudes. Some believe in a cause and effect relationship between the two; and yet others argue for a co-evolutionary mode of interrelation. This paper will subscribe to the Hallidayan co-evolutionary view of the relat...