A Handbook to Teaching Communicative English

The present book viz., A Handbook to Teaching Communicative English (For

Research students) is a successful attempt to teach English to ESL students

through communicative approach. Several practical tasks are suggested to

practice speaking English in a normal class room by an English making learning

live and interesting. The communicative approach to teaching of English is

organized on the basis of certain communicative functions, such as apologizing,

describing, inviting, promising etc. that the ESL learners need to know. It

explains the language in terms of the functions it performs. This approach does

not ignore the role of grammar in the process of language learning, but it insists

that the grammatical rules are useless unless they are applied to real-life

situations Communicative approach focuses on the signi

cance of language

functions because the learner needs knowledge of both meaning and functions.

It lays emphasis on functional, communicative and social interactive activities.

The basis of each lesson is a problem or a task and the conduct of the lessons

consists of setting the task, demonstrating ways of tackling it and, in the

process, giving some pupils a chance to attempt it, then getting all the pupils to

attempt and,

nally giving each pupil a rough indication of the measure of his

success. The function of the task is to bring about a self-reliant effort by the

learners. Tasks consist of : interpreting a schedule, giving a set of directions, de