Investigating the Significance of the Communicative Approach in Teaching Grammar and Language Learning Activities—A Case Study of General English Students at Red Sea University

Nahid Alamin Ibrahim

doi:10.11648/j.cls.20180403.12

Abstract

The present study aims at investigating the effectiveness of the communicative approach on teaching grammar and language activities. The sample of the study consists of 193 (male and female students) of general English language at Read Sea University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities for the academic year 2012/2013. It is a mixed method research design "mixing both methods", using descriptive and interpretive analysis. A descriptive-correlation design was employed among the samples of the study to find out the effectiveness of communicative approach in teaching grammar and language activities, a student's pre-test and post- test and teachers' questionnaire were used for data collection. The data was analyzed by using a variety of statistical methods. The analysis of the data has focused on verifying the effectiveness of the communicative approach in understanding grammar and language activities compared to traditional approaches. The results of the investigation have revealed the following: a. Using the communicative approach in second language teaching is more effective in understanding grammar and language activities than traditional approaches. b. The Communicative approach is more sufficient in learning than other approaches. The study concluded with some recommendations.1. Language lab is important in order to provide learners with opportunities to be exposed to the target language as used by native speakers. 2. It is useful for EFL teachers to follow training courses in applying CA principles as other countries 3. Finally, further researches which are related to the communicative approach are suggested.

Highlights

IntroductionThe words communication and communicative have tended to crop up with increasing frequency
It is obvious that, the words communication and communicative have tended to crop up with increasing frequency
Hymes [6], The theoretical core of which is Hymens’ communicative competence theory knowing when and how to say what to whom and the theory of Halliday's functional linguistics communicative language teaching Item from (6-16) examine the teachers' interaction in the classroom 91% of the teachers who agree that, communication with an individual student in a large class means that trying to communicate with students on personal level will make a great frustration and disturbance We find that the communicative approach emphasis on students ' initiative and interaction rather than traditional approaches

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Introduction

The words communication and communicative have tended to crop up with increasing frequency It follows that there has been a shift in emphasis in recent years from teaching language forms to teaching language functions. It could be said that if communicative teaching, is teaching language for a purpose, the sense of needs to play a prominent part in the process of presentation and practice. Of teaching forms with their meanings Going on to practice their uses, the teacher might begin with the use and proceed to teach examples of the forms that are required. This type of procedure would be communicative presentation and practice [2]

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