Pre- communicative activities
to produce certain forms in an acceptable way. He is prompted to use these forms by the teacher’s instructions (as in a drill).
to produce language that they have recently learnt (e.g. through opened or cued dialogues)
The learner’s focus is more on language forms to be learnt than on meanings to be communicated.
Communicative activities
The purpose of the learner is to use the linguistic repertoire he has learnt, in order to communicate specific meanings for specific purposes.
Is an activity pre-communicative or communicative? It depends on how the teacher presents the activity : exposition of activity, explanation of activity
(from William Littlewood (1994), “Communicative Language Teaching, CUP”)
How communicative are different classroom activities?
What is communicative activity? Below are six criteria that you can use to decide how communicative different classroom activities are. Use these criteria to evaluate the selection of classroom activities attached.
Criteria for evaluating how communicative classroom activities are:
Communicative purpose: The activity must involve the students in performing a real communicative purpose rather than just practicing language for its own sake. In order for this to occur there must be some kind of 'gap' (information or opinion) which the students seek to bridge when they are communicating.
Communicative desire: The activity must create a desire to communicate in the students. That is, even though speaking is forced on the students, they must feel a real need to communicate.
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