• DocumentCode
    2414311
  • Title

    A Comparative Study of the Features of the Direct Method and the Communicative Approach

  • Author

    Li, Shuang ; Mao, Xin

  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    21-23 Oct. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1068
  • Lastpage
    1071
  • Abstract
    For sometime, English Language Teaching (ELT) has been undergoing a heated discussion as to the best way of teaching. ELT is a science which studies the processes and pattern of foreign language teaching, aiming at revealing the nature and laws of foreign language teaching. It is an inter-disciplinary science and it makes use of theories of different subjects. This paper is to introduce and compare two teaching ways: the Direct Method and the Communicative Approach in several different levels.
  • Keywords
    Context; Educational institutions; Grammar; Materials; Pragmatics; Presses; English Language Teaching; compare; the Communicative Approach; the Direct Method;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computational and Information Sciences (ICCIS), 2011 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Chengdu, China
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1540-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCIS.2011.24
  • Filename
    6086389