Concerning the history of teaching English as a foreign language, in the 70s, teachers faced another approach to
teaching. Language was not seen as a set of sentences anymore, but as a set of communicative events.
PIAZZA, Paulo Thiago. The historical development of english as a foreign language teaching in brazilian schools: methods and legal documents. Revista Contribuciones a Las Ciencias Sociales, São José dos Pinhais, v.17, n.6, p. 01-23, 2024. Disponível em: https://ojs.revistacontribuciones.com/ojs/index.php/clcs. Acesso em: 10 mai. 2025.
Judge the items as ( T ) TRUE or ( F ) FALSE according to the Communicative Approach.
( ) Instead of organizing the syllabus based on grammar topics (simple past, simple present, if clauses, etc.), the organization is focused on developing students´ communicative competence.
( ) Classes based on Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) tend to be more teacher-centered, with a greater emphasis on teacher-student interactions and situations where the language must be used by students for communicative purposes.
( ) Errors are viewed as part of development, and most of the time are not corrected immediately. ( ) The role of the teacher in CLT is to promote situations where students need to communicate in their mother tongue.
( ) Students must be exposed to authentic materials, that is, language as it is actually used in daily routines in the real world.
Choose the CORRECT sequence.
PIAZZA, Paulo Thiago. The historical development of english as a foreign language teaching in brazilian schools: methods and legal documents. Revista Contribuciones a Las Ciencias Sociales, São José dos Pinhais, v.17, n.6, p. 01-23, 2024. Disponível em: https://ojs.revistacontribuciones.com/ojs/index.php/clcs. Acesso em: 10 mai. 2025.
Judge the items as ( T ) TRUE or ( F ) FALSE according to the Communicative Approach.
( ) Instead of organizing the syllabus based on grammar topics (simple past, simple present, if clauses, etc.), the organization is focused on developing students´ communicative competence.
( ) Classes based on Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) tend to be more teacher-centered, with a greater emphasis on teacher-student interactions and situations where the language must be used by students for communicative purposes.
( ) Errors are viewed as part of development, and most of the time are not corrected immediately. ( ) The role of the teacher in CLT is to promote situations where students need to communicate in their mother tongue.
( ) Students must be exposed to authentic materials, that is, language as it is actually used in daily routines in the real world.
Choose the CORRECT sequence.