A Study Of Applying CA Into Teaching Spoken English In Junior High School

Communicative Approach (CA) is an approach to foreign or second language teaching which stresses communicative competence as the goal of language learning. The main purpose of studying CA as an approach is to build up teachers and students'communicative awareness and enhance their communicative competence especially linguistic competence.In the present thesis, the author plans to explore effective methods to improve students'oral ability in junior high school. Based on the previous studies, the author intends to apply CA to spoken English teaching classes. There are mainly three research questions to be addressed in the research: (1) Is CA effective in spoken English teaching in junior high school? (2) Which of the methods used in class do the students prefer? (3)What are effective strategies to improve the students'oral ability through CA in junior high school?The followings are the major findings of the thesis: (1) the CA-oriented teaching methods do have positive effects on students'spoken ability in junior high school, and the students warmly welcome this kind of teaching methods; (2) the students in junior high school prefer the activities which need more interactions, either between students and teacher (guessing games sometimes), or among peers (role-playing). The design of classroom activities is quite vital to the effect of oral proficiency improvement; (3) there are several suggestions that are applicable in CA-oriented speaking class—introducing authentic material into class, enhancing interactions between teacher and students, creating an interactive environment among peers and promoting other activities outside the class room.