Interactive Method principles and ways

of realizing them in teaching English

Interactive language teaching as introduced by W. M. Rivers in1987.
a) Intrinsic motivation: as the target language becomes more significant in
everyday life communication, the students become intrinsically motivated to
speak because they need information exchange with each other;
b) Strategic competence: the learners’ interaction requires the use of strategic
language competence, the spontaneity of interactive discourse requires
numerous strategies for the correct production and comprehension;
c) Risk-taking: speech interaction requires a certain degree of risk-taking,
especially they are afraid of being laughed at, of being rejected, creating
favorable psychological condition for risk taking and speaking;
d) Language-culture connection: as we know the target language is closely
connected with the culture of the nation;
e) The teacher’s functions: the teacher as a controller: determine what the
students do, when they should write or speak, and what language forms they
should use in speech;
f) As a director: in the interactive classroom the teacher is like a conductor of an
Interactive Method

 Interactive language teaching as introduced by W. M. Rivers in1987.

a) Intrinsic motivation:

 as the target language becomes more significant in

 everyday life communication, the students become intrinsically motivated
to
 speak because they need information exchange with each other;
b) Strategic competence:

 the learners’ interaction requires the use of strategic

 language competence, the spontaneity of interactive discourse requires
 numerous strategies for the correct production and comprehension;
c) Risk-taking:

 speech interaction requires a certain degree of risk-taking,

 especially they are afraid of being laughed at, of being rejected, creating
 favorable psychological condition for risk taking and speaking;
d) Language-culture connection:

 as we know the target language is closely

 connected with the culture of the nation;
e) The teacher’s functions: the
teacher as a controller:
 determine what the
 students do, when they should write or speak, and what language forms
they
 should use in speech;
f) As a director:

 in the interactive classroom the teacher is like a conductor of an

 orchestra or a director of a drama performance in their speech practicing;
g) As a manager:

 the role of the teacher as a manager is extremely important as

 he plans lessons and classroom time, then he decides what should do each
 individual learner within given time and place;
  
h) As a facilitator:

 facilitating the process of learning means making learning

 easier for students, helping them in their difficulties;
i) As a resource:

 the implication of the resource role is realized by giving prompts

 that helps the student to solve some problems and advises when the
student seeks
 the answers to the given questions.