ERIC Number: ED266673
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1985
Pages: 25
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The Role of Communicative Language Teaching in Secondary Schools--with Special Reference to Teaching in Singapore.
Kirkpatrick, T. A.
Singapore's grammar-based English language syllabus and the wide range of native languages and English oral ability among secondary school students make the second language teaching situation complex and the use of the communicative approach challenging but not impossible. While grammar is an essential element of second language proficiency, it is not sufficient in itself. The grammar-based and communicative approaches are often complementary, and fluency exercises are an important correlate to communicative grammar teaching. Communicative teaching has the additional advantage of helping school children develop cross-cultural awareness and learn communicative strategies of the language to be learned. However, additional materials designed to help Mandarin speakers learn certain English communicative strategies, especially those of information sequencing, would be helpful. (MSE)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Singapore
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