The Interactive Approach In EFL Classroom

With rapid technological and social change, modern language teaching has moved from traditional approaches to various versions of communicative methodology. However, although an abundance of attractive and authentic language-teaching materials have appeared as a result of this tread, there has been an ever-growing concern that learners have not made as much progress as might have anticipated. In response to the methodological issues, applied linguistics aims to explore what is interaction so that teaching methods might be designed to facilitate rather than hinder the learning profess. The Interactive Approach Teaching (IAT) in EFL Classroom synthesizes that accumulation of knowledge into a practical, principled approach to teaching English as a second or foreign language. For a significant part of the twentieth century, teacher education programs were expected to deliver a handful of different methods-relatively homogeneous sets of classroom practices that sprang from one particular theoretical perspective.The present thesis principally deals with the implication of the interactive approach teaching in EFL classroom in china with an aim to improve English learning in the country.Starting with an introduction, this paper is an attempt to investigate into the interactive approach teaching in EFL classroom adopted by Chinese teachers. The findings of the study will provide an empirical basis for understanding the theory of Speech Act, particularly from the perspective of culture-based students in communities. To investigate into the general situation of English teaching in China, the writer examines current ways of teaching to students in China. The result of the paper shows that the students' practical knowledge of English is essential to teach.This study explores the Interactive Language teaching and the principles that govern communicative behavior in the light of Speech Act theory. This enables us to view verbal communication in terms of its principles: automaticity, intrinsic motivation, strategic...