I found the article very interesting and I agree with the author. The theory of the Communicative Approach sounds great; it talks of how a communicative teacher should be, about the importance of considering the needs of the group but also the learner itself. Also how teachers should pay attention to meaning and form simultaneously, how should be their role in relation to their students and the use of text book. But there is a big difference between the theory and the practice because the reality on a classroom is completely different. Even the author makes allusion of that when he is describing a communicative teacher as “Wizard of Oz like superperson”.
I think that teachers should aspire to be a Communicative Teacher and maybe they can take out some ideas but that’s it!
If teachers aspire to be become Communicative teachers, they need to be coherent and use a Communicative methodology, tasks, instruments, and also, to evaluate in a Communciative way.
ResponderEliminarI agree with you Valentina when you say there is a big gap between theory and practice.I consider that applying what you know is not as easy as it sounds.
I agree with you Vale, real classrooms is so different, even thoogh schools and teachers think they are using this approach, perhaps they don't know it well or the "system is too strong" to be modified?
ResponderEliminarIt would be nice if there were a lot of communicative teachers, but for that to happen there must be a bigger interest in teachers; their education, their working conditions, etc. Otherwise as the text says it would require a magician, and as much as we would like to perform magic, most will fail.
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