1. Department of English Present by Roll no. Batch year
Semester Guide by Paper no Unit no.Heeral A.Bhatt 07 2013 3 Heenaba
Zala 12 3
2. Presentation Topic Structural Approach and Communicative
Approach 3. Definition of structural Approach In the words of Menon
and Patel: "The Structural Approach is based on the belief that in
the learning of a foreign language, mastery of structures is more
important than the acquisition of vocabulary." 4. Objectives of
structural approachEmphasis on oral-aural approachCorelate of
teaches grammar &compositionActive use of 3000 wordsRepetition
of 275 graded structures 5. Characteristics of Structural
ApproachWord orderPresence Use of of small Function number words
inflections 6. Example of the characteristic presence of function
words 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8)I kill the snake. I shall kill the
snake. I shall be killing the snake. I shall have killed the snake.
I have killed the snake. I have to kill the snake. I might have
killed the snake. I can kill the snake. 7. Inflection changes in
structure (i) In Verbs: I play: he plays; I am playing; I played.
(ii) In Nouns: one boy, two boys, that boy's cap; one man, two men,
men's food. (iii) In Adjectives and Adverbs: (a) great ... greater
... greatest good ... better ... best (b) Great ... greatly;
beautiful ... beautifully. 8. Principles of Structural Approach
Forming language HabitsImportance of speechImportance of pupils
activities 9. Idiomatic structureformulasTypes of structur
eSentence patternPhrase pattern 10. ApproachSelectionGradation 11.
Selection UsefulnessTeachabilityProductive surrender
valuesimplicity 12. Teacability Difficulty levelUsefulnessGradation
13. Merits Demerits Merits Speech is emphasized Habit formation is
stressed Students active participants Creates interest and
motivation Language taught in meaningful situationDemerits Good
plan fails Not helpful in teaching prose,poetry etc.. Mechanical
drilling A time consuming technique Less stress on reading,writing
and vocabulary expansion 14. How does communicative approach
develop as a teaching? Approach propagated by sociolinguist Dell
Hymes 15. Communicative approach It is one of the aim is to help
learners to acquire communicative competence : ability to use
linguistic system effectively and apropriately 16. Concept Comes
from the Latin word Communis = common The term communicate means to
share ideas or to convey messages verbally or non verbally 17.
Chracteristics Emphasis on learning by use No gap between learning
and usage Contents is in centre Developing four basic skills It
stresses on meaning base teaching Judicious use of mother tongue is
accepted 18. Merits Demerits Merits Enable students to express
their ideas. Develops speech ability Difficult & complex
concept learn through this. It is present situation learner makes
less error It develops curiocity an intellactual abilityDemerits
New approach so tested into language learning It ignores grammar
and structure of language Unsuitable for evaluation and examination
Difficult to attend the groups pairs in a large class for a
teacher. 19. Difference between Structural approach Communicative
approach Structural Approach Mechanical drilling Less stress on
four skills. Through this approach the teacher can attend to the
whole class as maximum students can be taught by this approach at a
time. Language taught in meaningful situation .This approach is
linked with situational teaching.Communicative Approach The most
natural way of language acquistion It believes to develop four
basic skills in an integrated way. Difficult to attend the groups
pairs in a large class for a teacher. It is based on the functional
utility of the language 20. Submitted To S.B.Gardi Department of
English M.K. Bhavanagar university Submission Date :
15/10/2013Thank you
