CRONOGRAMA

COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH

FIRST CLASS April 22^nd to May: 9^th

Communicative approach: background, definition and principles

MAIN CONCEPTS: start building your own glossary with the key concepts you find in the bibliography. See assessment for more information.

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

1) Describe with your own words the origins of the communicative approach.

2) How would you define the communicative approach?

3) In your opinion, which are the five most important principles of the communicative approach?

LET 076 C - UFMGCOM1: Go to http://www.voy.com/143502/ to publish your contribution.

LET 175 C - COMUFMG: Go to http://www.voy.com/143557/ to publish your contribution.

In order to answer the questions you can use the following bibliography:

You are not supposed to read all of them as far as you have enough support to write your tasks.

Larsen-Freeman, D. (1986). Techniques and principles in language teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p.123-140

RICHARDS, J. & RODGERS, T. Approaches and methods in Language teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. p.64-86