Implementation Of Communicative Teaching Approach In The English Classroom Teaching

With the coming of the information age and the development of business transactions around the world, a large number of people with good command of English are greatly needed, and being capable of speaking fluently has emerged recently as one of the basic requirements of modern people in the global village. But up till now our instruction of foreign language, especially our basic instruction, is still following the traditional foreign language teaching theory and mode. The foreign language teaching is still examination-oriented. With the development of the society, its disadvantages are becoming increasingly obvious. The traditional teaching theory is mainly teacher-centered, paying attention to the impartation of knowledge, neglecting the students and their language creativity. This kind of teaching method isn't suitable for the wider and wider scope of foreign exchange that China is expanding, and can't meet our country's needs for the high quality talent. Under the circumstances, it is essential for us to adopt the communicative teaching approach in order to develop the student's ability to comprehend language and improve their communicative ability. Whythe communicative teaching approach, as a foreign language teaching theory, can be widespread in the world is that it reveals the social function of language and the essence and goal of foreign language teaching and that it always regards the development of communicative ability as the core of foreign language teaching. So, it is exactly the needs of the new national conditions to carry out the communicative teaching approach. The paper proves the importance of implementing the communicative teaching approach in the English classroom teaching by analyzing the current situation of English teaching, and takes spoken English teaching as an example to probe into how to implement the communicative teaching approach in the classroom according to the features, objectives and principles of the communicative teaching approach.