communicative

• “… Learners do not find room to speak as themselves, to use language in communicative encounters, to create text, to stimulate responses from fellow learners, or to find solutions to relevant problems (pp 8-9).”

  August « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT

• “Cognitive theorists might add that the attention to meaning required in communicative interaction requires that learners ‘park’ their concern for formal accuracy, and thereby develop strategies – such as ‘chunking’ – that promote fluency.”

  August « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT

• “Anyone who works with those who do not speak know that the word 'non-verbal' used to mean 'non-communicative' is just a falsehood.”

  Unsaid Words

• “a letter just received & caught myself commenting & rhapsodizing aloud! see how communicative is my disposition — a heart full of romance”

  Letter 78

• “Thanks, Simon for your thoughtful, even impassioned, comment – it’s never too late to hear from someone such as yourself who has been at the forefront (one can’t say ‘cutting edge’ anymore, unhappily) of developments in communicative methodology and materials writing for so many years.”

  S is for “Strategies” « An A-Z of ELT

• “No wonder, therefore, that the term communicative approach has become so elastic as to embrace any methodology that foregrounds speaking in pairs or small groups.”

  August « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT

• “Wilkins was one of the chief architects of what would come to be known as the communicative approach: his seminal Notional Syllabuses, building on his work with the Council of Europe, would be published in 1976.”

  March « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT

• “Intentions that are immediately concerned with communication itself, as opposed to ulterior goals, are called communicative intentions.”

  Fictionaut: Him

• “I get angry with agents who aren't communicative, that is when I get testy, but if an agent tells me that they can't accept something for whatever reason I do have look at the work again.”

  Rants and whines

• “And therefore a poet of my kind has what I would call a communicative vocation.”

  Vicente Aleixandre - Nobel Lecture

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