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HELP PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!
rosasud
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HELP PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!
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Anybody knows who invented the communicative approach? I have been searching on the web, but it is so confused. I am doing my thesis... Please if you have any information, i will be very grateful.... Thanks for advanced |
30 Jan 2013
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dadou
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The communicative approach (CA) was developed by Robert Langs MD, In the early 1970 �s. It is a new theory or paradigm of emotional life and psychoanalysis that is centered on human adaptations to emotionally-charged events--with full appreciation that such adaptations take place both within awareness (consciously) and outside of awareness (unconsciously). The approach gives full credence to the unconscious side of emotional life and has rendered it highly sensible and incontrovertible by discovering a new, validated, and deeply meaningful way of decoding unconscious messages. This procedure-called trigger decoding--has brought forth new and highly illuminating revisions of our understanding of both emotional life and psychotherapy, and it calls for significant changes in presently accepted psychoanalytic thinking and practice.
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30 Jan 2013
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valentinaper
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I think what dadou mentions has to do with communicative psychotherapy, and what you are looking for is communicative language teaching (CLT) CLT is usually characterized as a broad approach to teaching, rather than as a teaching method with a clearly defined set of classroom practices. As such, it is most often defined as a list of general principles or features. One of the most recognized of these lists is David Nunan�s (1991) five features of CLT. |
30 Jan 2013
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ueslteacher
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Definitely not Robert Langs, MD who is a psychiatrist, invented the communicative approach to language teaching.
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30 Jan 2013
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ueslteacher
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Sorry, but that �s just one link that is a bit too long. |
30 Jan 2013
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Apodo
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@ueslteacher: The link worked OK for me. |
31 Jan 2013
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