Chapter9: Communicative Language
Teaching (CLT)
authentic language - correct answer-language used in a real context
communicative approach - correct answer-an approach to language teaching that makes
learning to communicate central
Communicative competence - correct answer-Knowing when and how to say what to whom.
Being communicatively competent in the target language means being able to communicate
appropriately with others
Discourse or suprasentential level of language - correct answer-The organization of
language as texts, e.g. how sentences go together to make up a paragraph
display question - correct answer-A question to which both teacher and student know the
answer, but that is used by the teacher to find out what student knows or is able to do
+ a question teachers use to ask students to display what they know, but it is not a question
that asks you to give me information that I do not know
Functions - correct answer-Speech acts, such as inviting, promising, introducing one person
to another, that are performed within a social context
+ within a social context, language users needed ti perform certain functions, such as
promising, inviting, and declining invitations
Information gap - correct answer-An activity where not all the information is known by all the
participants. They have to share the information they have in order to complete the activity.
+ an information gap exists when one person in an exchange knows something the other
person does not. If we both know today is Tuesday, and I ask you, "What is today?" and you
answer "Tuesday", our exchange is not really communicative.
linguistic competence - correct answer-Mastery of the linguistic structures of the target
language
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