UNIT 1.

INTRODUCTION
Language is the fundamental vehicle to our thought, needs & feelings.
Communicative process           Oral and written.
Traditional FLT Learn about language but unable to use it
Communicative approach Use language with accuracy & appropriateness 
COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE.  General objective (LOMCE)
Essay's objective: study language and its functions (communication as one of its
functions.

DEFINITION & MAIN SPOKEN & WRITTEN

PROPERTIES OF LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE Historical attitudes (Chrono):
Language is the development of the Supremacy of written language
basic form of communication between Supremacy of oral language as
human beings, and in a society. primary medium of communication
Nature of language approaches: Complement each other
Structural
Communicative or functional SPEECH WRITING
Interactional Time bound, Space bound,
Features of communication: dynamic static, permanent
Flexibility & versatility Spontaneous, Careful thinking
Arbitrariness fast Can't rely on visual
Duality Visual clues Space
Discreteness Prosody, organization,
Productivity intonation, capitalization,
rhythm (Unique punctuation
features) (Unique features)
Phatic functions Recording of facts
FACTORS THAT DEFINE A Mistakes, once Mistakes are 
COMMUNICATIVE spoken can't be invisible to the
SITUATION erased receiver
Communication is the exchange & Interpersonal Non-present
negotiation of info between at least Pace: can be too audience
two individuals using verbal & non- fast Pace: oportunity to
verbal symbols.  re-read
Perspectives (Kaplun, 2002) CLASS APPLICATION
Act to transmit info
Act of exchange, sharing, reciprocity THE COMMUNICATIVE
Transmission just implies sending APPROACH
info; communication implies Traditional FLT: learn about language but
meaning, process & dialogue. unable to use it since the focus was'n on
Functions of communication communication.
(Jackobson) Communicative approach: to learn a
Metafunctions (Halliday) language one doesn't only need to utter
Elements of communication grammatically correct forms but to know
(Lasswell) the rules of use.
Aspects of the communicative approach
(Dell Hymes): Systenatic potential,
occurence, appropriacy, feasibility
Subcompetences (Canale & Swain):
grammar, discoursive, sociolinguistic,
strategic, sociocultural

THE COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH TO FLT

The communicative approach appeared in the 1970s as a reaction to audio-lingual
methods (more attention to structure than to its function). Noam Chomsky:
sentences aren't learned by imitation & repetition, they are generated from the
learner's competence.  Student's should be encouraged to use their innate &
creative abilities.
Communicative activities: interactive, unpredictable, within a context, authentic.