New Communicative Approaches in Language Teaching Study on the operational concepts and classroom practices

Abstract

Four new Approaches are discussed in this paper, which are the core of communicative teaching assumptions in recent years; Content-Based Instruction,Task-Based Instruction, Text-Based Instruction, and Competency-Based Instruction. In order to best facilitate those approaches, we focus on the main options; operational definitions, the basic assumptions and the theoretical framework, the main issues that raises in implementing such approach, and some problems and critics have pointed out in both methodology and application perceptions. Finally we close the paper with conclusions independent with the operational application of those approaches.