Communicative Language Teaching

The Role Of Grammar & The Authentic Text


Group: Nguyễn Hải Hà
Vi Diệu Thuần
Nguyễn Huyền Trang
I- The Role Of Grammar
(Focus on Form)
The view of language learning changed
 A shift in in the role of grammar

In traditional classrooms: dominant role
In earlier communicatice classrooms: marginal importance
Recent communicative classrooms: equal importance as meaning
Some Concept
Form- focused instruction

Discussion
Complete the summary with information taken from the passage (p. 43)
II – Authenticity
Authentic text
Authentic task
1. Authentic text
Authentic text?
- Designed for native speakers
- Used in the classroom in a way similar to the one designed for

Advantages vs. Disadvantages?

1. Authentic text: Advantages
Expose students to real discourse
Reflect language change
Contain a wide variety of text types, language styles
Same piece of material used for different tasks
Keep students informed about what is happening in the world
Produce a sense of achievement
Encourage reading for pleasure, likely to contain topics of interest to learners
(Martinez, 2002)

1. Authentic text - Disadvantages
Culturally biased  unnecessarily difficult to understand outside the language community
Irrelevant to the students’ needs and levels
Special preparation required  time consuming.
Become outdated easily, e.g. news.
(Martinez, 2002)
2. Authentic task
(Guariento and Morley, 2001)


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