ON THE ISSUE OF COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH TO FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Authors

  • Susanna CHALABYAN Armenian State University of Economics
  • Lilit GHAZARYAN Armenian State University of Economics

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46991/FLHE/2016.20.3.149

Keywords:

communicative approach, communicative function, communicative competence, grammatical competence, discourse competence, sociolinguistic competence, strategic competence, information gap, learner-centered teaching, target language

Abstract

The present paper is devoted to the discussion of the communicative approach to foreign language teaching, its objectives, advantages and some disadvantages. Thanks to the application of this approach students develop their communicative competence. The paper also justifies the importance of the given approach that will contribute to the use of the target language for real communication.

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Published

2016-11-17

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 3 (21) (2016)

Section

Methodology

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