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TEACHING EXPERIENCE: I believe we can best describe Lengua Inglesa Instruction as the Communicative Language Approach (CLA), also known as Communicative Language Teaching (CLT): This goes beyond grammar, because I teach
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Communicative writing tends to involve what might be termed ‘deep processing’ of language as the ‘investing’ writer struggles to give clear expression to thoughts.
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Personal characteristics: Communicative, helpful and observative.
Global Voices in English » Brazil: Tips to face the crisis from a popcorn street seller 2009
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Swain, M. (1985) ‘Communicative competence: some roles of comprehensible input and comprehensible output in its development’.
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Again, a good case for setting up speaking tasks that are likely to engage the learners because of their contingency and relevance (see previous thread: C is for Communicative).
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Communicative effectiveness is prioritised above structural accuracy and the 3rd person singular ‘s’ serves no distinguishing communicative purpose.
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Swain, M. (1985) ‘Communicative competence: some roles of comprehensible input and comprehensible output in its development’.
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Communicative whistling is usually considered a language surrogate - something which replaces normal language rather than operating within it.
On speaking music DC 2010
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His paper was called "The Labors of Internet-Assisted Activism: Overcommunication, Miscommunication and Communicative Overload," and while he disguised his ethnographic field research somewhat in the paper, it was clear that he was describing the chaos of a presidential campaign in the final weeks before a big-state primary.
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This is a point that seems to converge with Habermas's notion of communicative action The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society.
Archive 2009-07-01 Daniel Little 2009
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