Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of communicative language teaching method

Traditional reading teaching method adopts translation method, which not only ignores communicative expression ability, but also is difficult to meet the needs of modern society. At present, the communicative approach has been widely adopted in China and achieved good results. This paper analyzes some problems existing in the traditional teaching mode, and then puts forward the concrete application methods of communicative teaching method in English reading class. Keywords communicative teaching method; Reading course; English reading with introduction is an important part of language teaching, and the success of reading teaching greatly affects the comprehensive ability of English majors to use English. The task of reading class is to improve reading comprehension and cultivate students' logical thinking ability such as careful observation of language, analysis, induction and reasoning. This task emphasizes that reading teaching should focus on stimulating students' initiative and cultivating English communicative competence. The typical feature of the traditional classroom model is that teachers are the center of the classroom, and teaching activities are mainly based on teachers' explanations and demonstrations. Therefore, learners lack language communication skills. In recent years, the new "College English Curriculum Requirements" proposed by the Ministry of Education "to cultivate students' comprehensive English application ability, especially listening and speaking ability, so that they can effectively communicate oral and written information in English in their future work and social interaction, and at the same time enhance their autonomous learning ability and improve their comprehensive cultural literacy". This is consistent with the "communicative competence" put forward by Communicative Approach, so it is very beneficial and necessary to deeply study Communicative Approach English teaching and apply it to English reading teaching. 1. The concept and characteristics of communicative approach teaching (CLT) is an English teaching method founded by British applied linguists Christopher Candy and Henry widdowson in the late 1960s. Communicative approach is a teaching method based on a series of sociolinguistic theories, with language function as the key link and the goal of cultivating communicative competence. The core of communicative approach is communicative competence, and the core of communicative competence is to enable language learners to use the language forms they have learned to communicate effectively and appropriately with different objects in different situations. Communicative approach emphasizes not abstract language forms, but the practical application of different language forms and their communicative functions. The characteristics of communicative approach are as follows: 1. Its teaching purpose is to cultivate students' communicative competence. Enable students to use the language they have learned to communicate effectively and appropriately with different objects in different communication situations. 2. Communicative teaching method emphasizes that students are the protagonists of classroom teaching and should actively participate in classroom activities. 3. Communicative teaching method emphasizes the fluency of language and ignores the accuracy of language. Teachers should encourage students to communicate boldly in English. 4. Communicative teaching method pays more attention to the learning of target language than national culture, and at the same time pays attention to introducing the differences between Chinese and western cultures and cultivating cross-cultural communication knowledge. Second, the specific application of communicative approach in English reading class The ultimate goal of foreign language teaching is communication, even if students can use foreign languages in their work and life when necessary. Language itself is a communication tool, and the process of language teaching is also a series of communication processes. People in the teaching process are the subject and object of communication and have the role relationship of communication; The main purpose of implementing communicative approach in foreign language teaching is to communicate and learn to communicate through communication. The author has made a detailed and in-depth study on this, trying to improve the teaching mode of reading course for English majors, and achieved good teaching results. 1. Teachers introduce communicative teaching method in reading class (1) to combine listening and speaking activities with reading. Many teachers often ignore the importance of students' listening and speaking ability to improve their reading ability when teaching reading courses, and do not pay attention to the cultivation of listening and speaking ability in the teaching process. In view of this situation, the author boldly adopted the method of combining listening, speaking and reading. First of all, the teacher reads an article introducing the author or background of the text at a speed suitable for most students, and asks each student to take notes while listening. After reading aloud, divide the students into several groups and retell the general content of the article to other students according to what they understand and the notes recorded. Or according to the students' retelling, choose a classmate to retell the main content of the article to the whole class. You can also assign a classmate to play the role of a teacher and let him read the materials instead of the teacher. The application of this method not only trains students' ability to understand sentences and the reaction speed of understanding sentences or paragraphs, but also trains students' language expression ability, so that the two can be organically integrated. (2) Encouraging students to make presentations refers to the teaching form in which students make special speeches on a certain aspect of knowledge in class. This method emphasizes students' participation in analyzing and discussing problems, and pays attention to the cultivation of ability. By mobilizing students' enthusiasm, students are interested in the classroom, which not only improves their oral expression ability, but also helps to improve their ability to think, analyze and summarize problems. The author introduced this method into reading class and achieved good results. The demonstration emphasizes the participation of students, but the role of teachers can not be ignored. The quality of teaching effect and the smoothness of teaching process are inseparable from the organization and guidance of teachers. Teachers should play a guiding role in teaching, remind the speaker to pay attention to pronunciation, intonation and speech speed, communicate with the audience and observe the audience's expressions. This method allows students to live in scenes, and students' performances are lively and lively, so that everyone can learn English in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, instead of being scripted and boring. Through this activity, the classroom atmosphere was greatly enlivened, and many students who didn't go on stage were eager to try, which greatly improved their reading interest and improved their reading ability and understanding ability in the process of preparing materials. 2. The cooperation between students and CLT plays an important role in the implementation of CLT teaching. This requires students to actively cooperate with teachers in reading class, gradually improve their communicative ability and promote the cultivation of reading comprehension ability. For example, the author actively guides students to participate in the above-mentioned presentation activities, and lets students evaluate each other, learn from each other and make progress together through group cooperative learning. Students' mutual evaluation can include the following contents: the amount of reading comprehension after class, the degree of participation, whether they are good at asking questions and communicating with others; Language ability and organizational ability, as well as the completion of tasks. According to the evaluation among students, the evaluation grade is finally given. At the same time, the author also encourages students to do self-evaluation. Under the guidance of teachers, students can find out their own advantages and disadvantages according to their own performance in presentation, so as to stimulate their intrinsic learning motivation, construct their own learning goals and learning methods, and cultivate themselves to be a learner with self-evaluation ability and autonomous learning ability. Conclusion As a new teaching theory and strategy system, communicative approach has been gradually applied to English classroom teaching. Practice has proved that communicative teaching method is indeed an effective way to build a student-centered classroom model and cultivate language use ability. Introducing this teaching mode into English reading class can create a good environment for English reading and communication, help students get rid of their dependence on teachers in reading activities, and cultivate their autonomous learning ability and language application ability. Foreign language teachers should keep pace with the times, change the traditional teaching concept, fully realize the importance of cultivating students' English communicative competence, organically combine grammar knowledge explanation with communicative activities, boldly introduce communicative approach into English teaching classes, and constantly stimulate English learners' communicative potential, so as to achieve the purpose of cultivating English communicative competence. Reference [1] Wang Linhai. 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