Authors : Elena A. Karabutova, Inna B. Akinshina, Julia A. Prokopenko and Larisa A. Kobzareva
Abstract: The study dials with grammar teaching to university students through communication in situations of their future career. Recent techniques of communicative grammar teaching touch upon classroom activities involving students in meaningful participation in cognitive problem-solving, opinion sharing, language games, role play or student-led discussions and debates, question-answer interaction according to the specific speakers’ discourse goals through replication of naturally-occurring social interaction. Being a facilitator in language acquisitions the teacher is to make the students “communicatively competent” in second/Foreign language in accordance with specific social behavior. Teaching methods (result-oriented or process-oriented, form-focused and form-defocused) help to replicate authentic communication in the classroom in accordance with specific social behavior.
Elena A. Karabutova, Inna B. Akinshina, Julia A. Prokopenko and Larisa A. Kobzareva, 2015. Communicative Grammar Teaching Within a University Course of Foreign Language. The Social Sciences, 10: 1084-1091.