The Communicative Approach

 Communicative Approach belongs to  the changes and movements in the field of language teaching in British language teaching tradition dating  from the later 1960s. Until then, situational language Teaching represented the major Britis h approach in language teaching . In situational Language Teaching,  Language was taught    by practising  basic structures  in meaningfu situation -based activites.But just as the lingustic theory underlying Audio- linguist,Noam chomsky, demonstrated that the current standered of structural theories of language teaching were incapable of accounting the nature and fandamental characteristicts of language.British  Applied Linguist addressed another functiopnal and communicative potential of language.They saw the need of focus in language teaching on commmnicative proficiency  rather    than the mastery of structure.
   The main gole of communicative Approach is to communicate in target language . it states that Students need to know different  forms to perform a functional and a  single form for different functions. Moreo ver, they must be able to choose the appropriate form for particular function in a particular context.Therefore,communicative competence along with the  knowledge of linguistic competence is the key point of communicative Approach and the procedural design to meet the goal of communicative Approach is communicative method.