Reflections about the communicative approach in foreign languages teaching

Authors

  • Claudecy Campos Nunes Universidade de Taubaté - UNITAU

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1519-5392.2018v18n1p219

Keywords:

Foreign language, Teaching-learning, Communicative competence.

Abstract

This paper presents a theoretical reflection about the foreign languages teaching process through the communicative approach and aims at showing the communicative approach in the teaching-learning process of a new language. On this work, we elaborated a bibliographic and qualitative research relating to the modern foreign language teaching as a communicative competence notion. The research is based on the theoretical contributions of Almeida Filho (1986, 2013), Brown (2000, 2001), Hymes (1972), Krashen (1982, 1983), Larsen-Freeman (2000), Littlewood (1981), Richards (2006), Richards e Rodgers (2001), Widdowson (1978), among others, who discuss the communicative approach on foreign language teaching. It is concluded from the theoretical reference that a meaning communication in foreign language results of the interaction among contents inserted in real contexts of communication.

Author Biography

Claudecy Campos Nunes, Universidade de Taubaté - UNITAU

Master in Applied Linguistics from the University of Taubaté - UNITAU

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Published

2019-03-11

How to Cite

NUNES, Claudecy Campos. Reflections about the communicative approach in foreign languages teaching. Entretextos, Londrina, v. 18, n. 1, p. 219–241, 2019. DOI: 10.5433/1519-5392.2018v18n1p219. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/entretextos/article/view/32675. Acesso em: 22 jul. 2024.

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