sexta-feira, 18 de dezembro de 2009

My view on the role of material in promoting communicative Language use

Teaching language is a very complex process. Several methods can be used to attain the proposed teaching target. But the approach of Communicative Language teaching has been very useful to learners when applied efficiently.

Two weeks ago, I experienced amazing results in my students of Technologies of Information and Communication at IMIB-

I introduced in the language classroom, some computing devices and some multimedia devices like IPod, videogame and camera.

When I requested the students to present the use of one of those devices in their everyday life, it provoked a great discussion among them. Even those students who had never showed interest in participating in the classroom lessons before, they were argued to do.

It was exactly because the material aroused great interest of students and they become motivated with

My experience in English Language teaching shows that the use of materials in promoting communicative language will be profitable if the teacher is able to select and professionally apply them to the students’ specific purposes.

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