A Handbook to Teaching Communicative English

The present book viz. A Handbook to Teaching Communicative English (For Research students) is a successful attempt to teach English to ESL students through communicative approach. Several practical tasks are suggested topractice speaking English in a normal class room by an English making learninglive and interesting. The communicative approach to teaching of English isorganized on the basis of certain communicative functions such as apologizingdescribing inviting promising etc. that the ESL learners need to know. Itexplains the language in terms of the functions it performs. This approach doesnot ignore the role of grammar in the process of language learning but it insiststhat the grammatical rules are useless unless they are applied to real-lifesituations Communicative approach focuses on the significance of languagefunctions because the learner needs knowledge of both meaning and functions.It lays emphasis on functional communicative and social interactive activities.The basis of each lesson is a problem or a task and the conduct of the lessonsconsists of setting the task demonstrating ways of tackling it and in theprocess giving some pupils a chance to attempt it then getting all the pupils toattempt and finally giving each pupil a rough indication of the measure of hissuccess. The function of the task is to bring about a self-reliant effort by thelearners. Tasks consist of : interpreting a schedule giving a set of directionsdeciding