Practice of Communicative Approach in Elt Classrooms

Abstract

The research work entitled "Practice of Communicative Approach in ELTclassrooms" is an attempt to find out the current practice ofcommunicative approach to language teaching in ELT classroom ofpublic schools in Doti and aims to list pedagogicalimplications. Thesurvey was conducted in 10 randomly selected public secondary schools.Three 10 th grade lessons in each school for teaching reading, grammarand language functions and listening skill were observed using checklistprepared on the basis of classroom procedures, activities, materialsteacher's roles, students' roles,students-teacher interaction as well asinteraction among students and other indicators of classroom activitiesthat are supposed to be reflected in language classroom under CLT. Thecollected data were analyzed and interpreted descriptively usingfrequency distribution and percentage and presented in table. Fromanalysis and interpretation it was found that communicative approach tolanguage teaching is not being practiced in the ELT classrooms of publicschools in Doti.Rather there is 'survival' teaching far from CLT andnearer to the premise of traditional language teaching. This thesis comprises four chapters. Chapter one deals with generalbackground, review of the relatedliterature, objectives of the study andsignificance of the study. Chapter two deals with the methodologyadapted to carry out the research. It contains information on the sourcesof data, sampling procedure, tools, process of data collection andlimitations of the study. The data obtained through observation aretabulated, analyzed and interpreted using statistical tools in thechapterthree. Chapter four deals with the major findings of the study on the basisof the analysis and interpretation of the collected data. It also deals withsome recommendations made, being based on the major findings of thestudy. Finally, chapter four is followed by the references and appendices.