tailieunhanh - Communicative Activities in the English High School classrooms in Quang Binh Province: Problems and possible solutions

The article describes the concepts related to communicative activities and investigates into how teachers of English perceive and design communicative activities in classes. Hence, some possible solutions are suggested to help teachers of English organize more communicative tasks in English language teaching. | TCKHCN 17. 01 2018 COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITIES IN THE HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH CLASSROOMS IN QUANG BINH PROVINCE PROBLEMS AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS Pham Thi Ha Quang Binh University Abstract With the main focus on the practice of language use rather than mastery of language forms designing communicative activities is always encouraged and motivating in English classrooms. The article describes the concepts related to communicative activities and investigates into how high school teachers of English perceive and design communicative activities in classes. Hence some possible solutions are suggested to help teachers of English organize more communicative tasks in English language teaching. Keywords Communicative teaching activities. 1. INTRODUCTION Many new methods of language teaching have been proposed to make English teaching and learning more communicative and effective. Among them communicative language teaching is considered as the most effective one. In fact the main emphasis of the communicative approach is to develop the learners communicative competence through the negotiating of meaning . The communicative classroom seeks to encourage learners to initiate and participate actively in meaningful interaction 1 . Because of such significant value how to develop learners communicative competence in English has been becoming a concerning matter of many teachers of English. Firstly communication is the goal of language teaching. Secondly communication is a part of the learning process. As we communicate we make our formally learn language more automatically available 3 . However in reality in many places English language teachers are still subject teachers whose responsibility is to provide students with knowledge about the English language in the most effective way 2 . Moreover learners aim of learning is to get high marks or to pass examinations. They learn English because it is a compulsory subject but not because they like English. Many learners are very good at the .