Saturday, October 22, 2011

A communicative teacher

There is a group of selected teachers who can work with a small number of  clever students.These teachers can accept the challenge to incorporate the commmunicative approach in their daily routines. They don't need to worry about time because they normally have fewer lessons and they don't struggle with lack of knowledge or motivation because they usually work with a selected , motivated group of students. Furthermore, they are giving a green light to this approach because they feel that they are in a position to experiment with this new concept.

On the other hand, there is another group of teachers who has to deal with different groups of students who ignore the reasons or goals of their learning process. They are learning English but they don't know why. English in this case is a school subject and the new approach with a communicative teacher needs to motivate and create artificial situations to learn the language in a real context.The amount of responsibilty a communicative teacher has is bigger than the one a traditional teacher has and he has multiple functions in the classroom apart from being a language teacher, such as controller, assessor, and organizer among others.

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