How to Apply Communicative and Interactive Teaching Method to English Major Classroom

丁燕

（廣州市總工會外語職業(yè)學(xué)校 廣州 510000）

How to Apply Communicative and Interactive Teaching Method to English Major Classroom

丁燕

（廣州市總工會外語職業(yè)學(xué)校 廣州 510000）

How to Apply Communicative and Interactive Teaching

Method to English Major Classroom

1.Introduction

In order to reach the new teaching aim，a series of teaching ideas surrounded with communicative style could be advocated.However，teachers feel that it is beyond their ability to put it into effect on how to apply communicative and interactive teaching method to English Major Classroom efficiently. The key way of starting communicative and interactive teaching method is to transform the role of the teacher from a simple knowledge propagandist to a student’s partner.Communicative style reflects not only the teaching aim，but also the characteristics of teaching method，that is to use communicative way to teach，to make the classroom into communicative place.

2.The Change of the Role of Teachers

2.1 The Role of Teachers in Traditional Teaching

The relation between teaching and learning is a kind of separated relation. Teachers are propagandists of knowledge，while students are receivers of knowledge.It seems that the platform is a divided line rather than a bridge. Teachers are controllers of the whole teaching activities，students are passive participants.

2.2 The Role of Teachers in Communicative Style

The first thing for the teachers to do in this style is to change their role when apply communicative style to English course.They can’t act as knowledge authority any more，but the partners of learners to finish teaching tasks instead.Teachers，students，and classroom are melted into one.It dose not mean that teachers are not important any longer.Contrarily，they are much highly required.

3.Definition and Characteristics of the Objective-Oriented Course Preparation

In communicative and interactive classroom，teachers are servants and partners to students.To improve communicative ability，teachers should wake up students’communicative will，create communicative atmosphere.The priority of objective-oriented course preparation provides convenience to teachers when adopting CITM to English major classroom teaching.

4.The Organization of Classroom

The organization of classroom means a kind of cooperative organization that teachers and students fulfill the tasks in classroom together.It is mainly divided into lockstep classroom，group work，pair work and individual work.

4.1 The Lockstep Classroom in Communicative and Interactive Teaching Activity

In communicative and interactive teaching style，the lockstep classroom refers to teachers and students integrate totally.Teachers and students，students and students communicate and interact with each other.Teachers are organizers，they lead students to hold discussions，to learn together.What’s more，it is inclined to the communication and interaction between students and students.

4.2 Group Work

Group activity，which is a better way for students to study more communicatively and interactively than lockstep classroom.Teachers are organizers of group activities.In group activity，students have the chance to express themselves，to show themselves，to challenge themselves and then to realize themselves.The priority of group activity is that it alleviates the students’mental pressure.

4.3 Pair Work

Pair work is more advanced than group activity，because it is the style of face to face communication and interaction.Compared with group activity，the greatest advantage of pair work is that it forms a community in which partners can’t shirk their responsibility.They can be both active members and positive members in communication.

4.4 Individual Work

This kind of teaching style is not adopted frequently in classroom.Mostly it is used in classroom exercises，such as：reading exercise，comprehensive exercise，listening exercise，writing exercise，test exercise，reporting，induction，and reflection

5.Conclusion

Communicative and interactive teaching style，including the lockstep classroom、group work、pair work、individual work in this paper，changes the teaching phenomenon of“one speaker in classroom”.It accelerates the cooperation between teachers and students，students and students.In communicative and interactive classroom，students can not only find questions，analyze questions，but also resolve questions.Teachers and students can build an interactive platform which is the beneficial way to cultivate learning interest and to teach students master the gist of how to learn English.

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This paper focuses on introducing communicative and interactive teaching method（abbreviation:CITM）.It points out definitely that under the condition of applying CITM，the English major classroom will receive more achievement.The key way to push forward CITM is the transformation of the role of the teachers，whereas the objective-oriented course preparation and suitable organization of the classroom can effectively support the implementation of a communicative and interactive classroom.

Communicative and Interactive Teaching Method；The Role of the Teacher；Objective-Oriented Course Preparation；Organization of Classroom