Integration Of Communicative Language Teaching Into Grammar Teaching

With the emergence of new teaching approaches, the traditional teaching methods, especially grammar teaching, are being questioned. The traditional teaching methods focus on grammar teaching, which help a large number of linguists achieve a lot. However, the drawbacks of the traditional teaching approaches force us to reconsider them. In.the historical aspect and that of language acquisition, the importance of grammar teaching is unchallengeable. Its role changes from the dominant position to the subordinate one. It is obvious that the challenge we are facing is to teach grammar more effectively rather than to decide on whether to teach grammar or not. In the 1970s Communicative Language Teaching emerged and became popular in language teaching. It revealed the language's social function and the goal and nature of foreign language teaching. Fostering the communicative competence is its central goal. To some extent, it helps to make a remedy to the traditional teaching approaches. The present article analyses the role of grammar, the principle of grammar, the process of acquiring grammar and the features, principles, advantages and disadvantages of Communicative Language Teaching. The author advocates integrating Communicative Language Teaching with grammar teaching into a more effective way grammar teaching-raising the consciousness of the form of grammar rules and meaning and the use of grammar as well. In the article, the author makes a comparison between the traditional teaching approaches and the integrated method. Additionally, he gives two examples to prove the possibility of the integration. The discussion on some factors affecting the implementing the integration is made as well.