The Application of Communicative Approach in English Teaching

As a new teaching method, communicative teaching method is more and more valued and respected by educators.The communicative teaching method takes students as its core and focuses on developing students' abilities.The application of communicative approach in teaching has its advantages and disadvantages.This paper probes into the advantages and disadvantages of communicative approach in English teaching, and puts forward some suggestions on how to use it flexibly according to the actual situation in China.Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is the English name of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT).Communicative teaching method originated in the 1970s, and has undergone different stages of development.In the initial stage of the development of communicative teaching method, it focuses on seeking teaching syllabus and teaching methods that can improve students' communicative competence.Later, its focus gradually developed to focus on learners' communicative needs.The core content of communicative teaching method is communicative competence, that is, the ability to use the language to communicate effectively with different objects in different situations.In the classroom, the implementation of communicative teaching method is embodied in taking students as the core of classroom teaching.