Why is the Communicative Approach so attractive to many applied linguists and classroom teachers?
(1) Apart from providing a richer teaching and learning environment, it can first include wider considerations of what is appropriate as well as what is accurate.(2) Second, it can handle a wider range of language, covering texts and conversations as well as sentences.(3) Third, it can provide realistic and motivating language practice.(4) Lastly, it uses what learner “know” about the functions of language from their experience with their own mother tongue.
