Sociological View of CLT
Transcript of Sociological View of CLT
UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGÓGICA EXPERIMENTAL LIBERTADORINSTITUTO PEDAGÓGICO DE CARACAS
DEPARTAMENTO DE IDIOMAS MODERNOSPROGRAMA DE INGLÉS
CÁTEDRA DE LINGUISTICADIDÁCTICA DEL INGLÉS
Professor:Nahir Aparicio
Participant:Pérez, Veruska
Caracas, November 2011
•Hymes
•Wilkins
•Van Ek
•Widdowson
•Candlin
•Brumfit
• Johnson and
other British linguists
REPRESENTATIVES
SOME PRINCIPLES
• Language learning is learning to communicate.
• Teachers help learners in any way that motivates them to work
with the language.
• Language is created by the individual often through trial and
error.
• Intrinsic motivation will spring from an interest in what is being
communicated by the language.
• Communicative competence is the desired goal (i.e. the ability to
use the linguistic system effectively and appropriately).
To develop what Hymes
(1972) referred to as
"communicative competence”
Hymes's theory of communicative
competence was a definition of what a speaker
needs to know in order to be communicatively
competent in a speech community. In Hymes's
view, a person who acquires
communicative competence acquires both
knowledge and ability for language use.
Canale and Swain (1980) identified four dimensions:
• Grammatical competence.
• Sociolinguistic competence.
• Discourse competence.
• Strategic competence.
Howatt distinguishes between a "strong" and a "weak"
version of Communicative Language Teaching:
“Using English to learn it”
Advances the claim that language is acquired through
communication.
“Learning to use”
Stresses the importance of providing learners
with opportunities to use their English for
communicative purposes.