The Communicative Approach - resources

The Communicative Approach - resources

If you intend to do research aiming at writing a paper on the Communicative Approach, here is a good starting point. The three first references are books, but the others are papers published online (and available!)

Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy by H Douglas Brown

Great!

Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching (Cambridge Language Teaching Library)

Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching by Jack C. Richards and Theidire S. Rodgers

Great!

Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching by Diane Larsen-Freeman

Basic, but a classic. Great!

Communicative Language Teaching: approach, design and procedure

http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/16/67/40.pdf

Helpful and available online! Check the link

English Teaching: What is the Communicative Approach?

http://socyberty.com/education/english-teaching-what-is-the-communicative-approach/

Basic, but available!!!! Check the link

The Communicative Approach in English as a Foreign Language Teaching

http://www.monografias.com/trabajos18/the-communicative-approach/the-communicative-approach.shtml

Basic, but available online! Check the link

Communicative competence and communicative language teaching

http://www.u-bunkyo.ac.jp/center/library/image/fsell2002_25-32.pdf

Basic, but available online! Check the link

Coomunicative competence / Supporting English Language Learners

Other resources on the Communicative Approach and other topics on education:

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