Foreign Language Teaching Methodologies: Communicative

Early 1970s
Aim: learn how to communicate in everyday situations

Baseline theories:
1) Linguistics: sociolinguistics (Hymes) and pragmatics.

2) Psychology: cognitivism (Austin, Searle).

Approaches:
1) English situational methodology:
behaviouralism -> automatisms
oral approach + explicit grammar

2) Communicative approach:
communicative situations (70s-80s)
priority of oral language + quick introduction to writing + teacher as animator + audio and video (pedagogized) + dialogues in situation (vocabulary, structures, simulation) + explicit grammar

3) Functional-notional approach:
70s-90s
aim pedagogy + focused on the needs of the students + teacher as animator, designer and evaluator