Teachers in communicative class will find themselves talking less and more listening, as active facilitators.
5 subskills related to WRITING graphic skills (cap, punctuation,sp) grammatical skills (sentence patterns) stylistic skills rethorical skills (cohesion to link the parts) organisational skills (coherence to summarise)
Classification of major skills according to the medium(visual or aural) and the activity (receptive or productive) Classification of skills: definition, main strategies and stages to carry out activities.
Language is nor an aim, but rather a useful tool to communicate. 1
Not only utter grammmatically correct forms, also know the rules of use. 4 aspects: systematic, appropiacy, occurrence, feasibility.
To integrate skills we should use varied groupings when designing activities cause they offer opportunities por listening, reading, speaking and writing, such as role-plays, dictations and project works.
A learner's ability to understand needs to be more extensive than his ability to produce language
Errors are normal they are part of the TLP, they are positive evidence that learning is taking place.
Beginning foreign language students want to feel, touch, experiment, smell and see the foreign culture, and not just hear its language.2
The ability to speak fluently comes with time, after the acquirer has built up a certain linguistic competence by understanding the input.
Interaction among competences as the CC is a dynamic concept and depends on the negotiation of meaning between 2 or more people who share to some degree, the same symbolic system.
Larsen and Freeman
Literacy is the ability to read and weite and use numeracy in an adequate level so as to teach written communication, enabling workers, and citizens.2
Byrne 2
Dell Hymes 1971
Jeremy Harmer
Chomsky
Savignon 1983
Mathews
Through learning a language, we learn about culture, through learning about culture, we learn respect for others, through learning respect for others we can hope for peace. 1
Krashen
Byrne
