CRITICAL EVALUATION OF COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING IN TEACHING AND LEARNING GENERAL ENGLISH IN STATE SCHOOLS OF UZBEKISTAN
Keywords:
Communicative language teaching, method, approach, authenticity, L1, L2.Abstract
Communicative language teaching has been given emphasis in Uzbekistan in the last decade. The reason is the most important methods which have been used so far the grammar translation method has not been that much effective. In my experience of learning a foreign language article in the English language although I achieved advanced levels in grammar and vocabulary I wasn't able to communicate in English language at all. As a student of English in our education system I started the language for 6-years at school from the grade 5 to 11 and then NH I did 4 years of study in our higher education however I was not able to communicate in the language at all. I'm receiving advanced levels in grammar and vocabulary I was able to get scholarship to enter higher education. After achieving this result when I my watched BBC news for the first time I did not understand anything. I did not understand when I listened to English and I was not able to to express myself in written and spoken form the emphasis of our learning was on a sentence level. I was good at placing words in certain places I was able to place nouns adjectives adverbs properly in a sentence but I was not able to to put together the sentences in order to create a cohesive and coherent a written text or or a meaningful speech. The most interesting thing is given the the pronunciation of English was towards in lectures so we were taught how the the mouth moves the the position of the time and the leaps in pronouncing certain sounds. however we did not practice it ourselves we did not listen to authentic English materials at all. in this essay theoretical and empirical description is given to the seven questions from the academic Johnson asks about a method in his book an Introduction to Foreign Language Teaching and Learning. Other important questions that arose during the lectures will also be covered. Then, the implementation of communicative language teaching method and challenges of implementation in state schools of Uzbekistan will be discussed separately in terms of teaching grammar, vocabulary, reading, listening, writing and speaking
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