THE COMMUNICATIVE-PRAGMATIC APPROACH IN LANGUAGE TEACHING, TEACHER ROLES AND BEHAVIORS AND IN-CLASS COMMUNICATION

The communicative-pragmatic approach is a sine qua non as a paradigm in language teaching, which encompasses unchallenged and quite different teaching methods and techniques within itself while preserving its timeliness. Nowadays, the question, which emphasizes the application phase of the approach, is Communicative, but how?. This question calls forth the necessity to put forward the teacher roles, behaviours, teacher-learner and learner-learner communication. Taking this into account, the present study deals with the above mentioned subparadigms within the application phase of the communicative-pragmatic approach.