COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH
- 1. TEACHERS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH VAHDET NAZLIM
- 2. Why is the communicative approach rarely applied in the classrooms of Turkey? Why do Turkish teachers follow structural approaches?
- 3. Origins and function of the Communicative Approach Teachers’ Attitudes towards the Communicative Approach What is Communicative Approach?
- 4. Origins of the Communicative Approach Response to the Audio-lingual and Grammar Translation methods Emerge of functional and meaningful language use
- 5. Function of the Communicative Approach Knowledge of how to use the target language Importance of unpredictability in real – life communication
- 6. Attitudes towards the Communicative Approach The relationship between the Communicative Approach and teachers’ attitudes Curriculum Innovation in Turkey
- 7. Methodology Descriptive study Comparison of responses to the attitude scales with classroom practice
- 8. Participants of the study Attitude scale group: Thirty two ELT teachers working in high schools. Observation group: T en teachers who responded to the attitude scale s .
- 9. Research Design Apply a Likert type attitude scale Observe classroom practices Evaluate if there is a discrepancy between what has been told and what actually occurs within the classroom.
- 10. Data Collection & Instruments Attitude scale includes: 24 statements 12 favourable 12 unfavourable
- 11. Classroom observation Criteria : Whether the teacher gives importance to the knowledge of rules or not Whether the teacher correct errors frequently or not The role of the teacher and students Pair or group work
- 12. Data analysis Scoring of favourable and unfavourable items 5 points for “strongly agree” 1 point for “strongly disagree” For CA for GT/AL 5 points for “strongly disagree” 1 point for “strongly agree”
- 13. Findings and Discussion Score 104,00 Maximum 46,00 Minimum 165,23226 Variance 12,85427 Std. Deviation 88,00(a) Mode 84,0000 Median 81,9677 Mean 0 Missing 32 N Valid
- 14. Frequency
- 15. Age variable Rank 32 Total 173.50 12.39 14 2.00 322.50 18.97 18 1.00 SCORE Sum of Ranks Mean Rank N AGE
- 16. Conclusion Identify your beliefs and be aware of them Determine your role and position in the classroom Take into consideration in-service training
- 17. THANKS A LOT