Benefits and Strategies of Communicative Language Learning

The article shows different techniques or strategies to teach a second language. The communicative language learning for example provide skills longer than to  learn an ancient language which  it goes from grammatical explanation and translation exercises. Some ancient languages don’t need conversational ability in order to understand the language. Strategies recommended to master the communicative competence are private dialog, immersion environment instructional songs. Encouraging private dialog among students gives the opportunity to express themselves with opinions. When guiding the students with the correct techniques they will be able to move from one stage to another. Teaching a second language we must keep in mind a vital step for students’ progress instead of traditional language learning. We must present the language with different techniques in order to develop a communicative competence, which should include visual aids in the classroom for students’ engagement. When establishing an immersion program the techniques should be presented in the target language only, they must interact with the language, for example with oft- repeated phrases. The teacher should guide them throughout the lesson, or repeating together a specific sentence provided by the teacher. Also when teaching a second language we must consider making the environment more exiting for students and also for teachers. Providing songs will help with retention. In some cases it will be only memory, but I considered that is an easy way to improve retention, using the songs with charts will provide the visual and auditory skills, to make that connection with students   to acquire a second language. The early stages are vital when learning a second language. They must hear how the language sounds before attempt to vocalize words by themselves. Sometimes students feel insecure of how a specific word is pronounced, these leading to frustration making this a barrier in order to continue to acquire a second language. We should provide them engaging songs not only for young students, making the environment easy to retain the language. We as teachers should give them numerous of opportunities of creative classes and marvelous strategies and techniques to capture the students’ desires.