Communicative Method by Peter Wickham
The new KSSR mentions Communicative Method as the preferred approach to teaching English. This workshop explores:
1. What the CM is: what it entails and what it looks like.
2. Using the CM: advantages and disadvantages.
3. Alternatives to the CM.
It begins with presenting a lesson using the Communicative Method to teach language to a class of English language teachers or English language lecturers. Since such a class already possesses a reasonable proficiency in English - and therefore would not benefit from a demonstration of this method in English. That is why another language has been chosen as the content of the lesson - namely Tok Pisin, one of the national languages of Papua New Guinea. Like Bahasa Melayu, it is highly cognate with English vocabulary and grammatical constructions. This simulates the degree of difficulty of learning English for a native speaker of Bahasa Melayu with no or little English proficiency.
It is essential to bear in mind that Lessons 1 & 2 (downloadable from the links below) are designed to demonstrate aspects of the Communicative Method. The content is completely irrelevant.
Please note that NO WRITING is permitted during these lessons. The presenter must not write anything on the board , and participants are not to take notes. Learning must take place through the media of listening and speaking.
1. What the CM is: what it entails and what it looks like.
2. Using the CM: advantages and disadvantages.
3. Alternatives to the CM.
It begins with presenting a lesson using the Communicative Method to teach language to a class of English language teachers or English language lecturers. Since such a class already possesses a reasonable proficiency in English - and therefore would not benefit from a demonstration of this method in English. That is why another language has been chosen as the content of the lesson - namely Tok Pisin, one of the national languages of Papua New Guinea. Like Bahasa Melayu, it is highly cognate with English vocabulary and grammatical constructions. This simulates the degree of difficulty of learning English for a native speaker of Bahasa Melayu with no or little English proficiency.
It is essential to bear in mind that Lessons 1 & 2 (downloadable from the links below) are designed to demonstrate aspects of the Communicative Method. The content is completely irrelevant.
Please note that NO WRITING is permitted during these lessons. The presenter must not write anything on the board , and participants are not to take notes. Learning must take place through the media of listening and speaking.
instructions_for_booklet_printing.docx | |
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Please click on the PDFs below to download files from which booklets can be printed.
Please click on the pptx files to download the PowerPoint slide shows with notes.
Please click on the docx file below to download the instruction sheet for Lessons 1 & 2.
tok_pisin_lesson_1_lexicon.pdf | |
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tok_pisin_lesson_1_lexicon.pptx | |
File Size: | 3663 kb |
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tok_pisin_lesson_2_bilong.pdf | |
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tok_pisin_lesson_2_bilong.pptx | |
File Size: | 4695 kb |
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tok_pisin_lesson_outline.docx | |
File Size: | 72 kb |
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Communicative ESL
Follow the link to Peter's new site about the Communicative Approach.