Communicative Approach

We mainly use inductive teaching approaches, also known as “inquiry” or “discovery” teaching. This means that the teacher is a guide, making it a more student-centered method. We call it our Communicative Approach and it is a mix of the following methodologies and approaches:

Task Based Learning

• Students are given a task, problem, activity, or topic
• Students work together on the task, and practice realistic language
• They discover a particular language point through the language used to solve the task.

The Lexical Approach

• Students focus on understanding and producing frequently used fixed expressions as “chunks” or “words that go together, like “Could you tell me” + wh?, or “That’s interesting!”
• Grammar is analysed as vocabulary in a special pattern.

Guided Discovery

• The teacher provides examples
• Learners find out the rules themselves
• Teachers are facilitators.