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 to practice speaking English in a normal class room by an English making learning live and interesting. The communicative approach to teaching of English is organized on the basis of certain communicative functions such as apologizing describing inviting promising etc. that the ESL learners need to know. It explains the language in terms of the functions it performs. This approach does not ignore the role of grammar in the process of language learning but it insists that the grammatical rules are useless unless they are applied to real-life situations Communicative approach focuses on the significance of language functions 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 lessons consists of setting the task demonstrating ways of tackling it and in the process giving some pupils a chance to attempt it then getting all the pupils to attempt and finally giving each pupil a rough indication of the measure of his success. The function of the task is to bring about a self-reliant effort by the learners. Tasks consist of interpreting a schedule giving a set of directions deciding