Title :
A Comparative Study of the Features of the Direct Method and the Communicative Approach
Author :
Li, Shuang ; Mao, Xin
Abstract :
For sometime, English Language Teaching (ELT) has been undergoing a heated discussion as to the best way of teaching. ELT is a science which studies the processes and pattern of foreign language teaching, aiming at revealing the nature and laws of foreign language teaching. It is an inter-disciplinary science and it makes use of theories of different subjects. This paper is to introduce and compare two teaching ways: the Direct Method and the Communicative Approach in several different levels.
Keywords :
Context; Educational institutions; Grammar; Materials; Pragmatics; Presses; English Language Teaching; compare; the Communicative Approach; the Direct Method;
Conference_Titel :
Computational and Information Sciences (ICCIS), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu, China
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1540-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICCIS.2011.24
