COMMUNICATIVE-ANALYTIC METHOD IN TEACHING ENGLISH TO ADULTS AT COMMERCIAL ENGLISH SCHOOLS AND CENTERS IN UKRAINE
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2015
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International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences
Анотація
The growing use of English as the language of global communication leads to the
growing demand for learning it among adult population of non-English-speaking countries. If such
people did not have a chance of acquiring English during their school or university years but
urgently need it for professional or personal purposes, they learn it in courses offered by numerous
commercial language schools and centers. This article deals with the experience of teaching English
at such schools and centers in Ukraine. The way of teaching and learning suggested in the article
was developed to meet students’ expectations and, at the same time, to be in full accordance with
the most cutting edge achievements in today’s approaches to organizing adult students’ successful
language acquisition. The developed method of teaching/learning was called the communicativeanalytic
one since, on the one hand, it makes use of the best in communicative language learning
required for optimal attainment of the final goal of language education for adults – developing their
English communicative competence. On the other hand, the communicative approach is combined
with learners’ analysis, practicing, and consciousness-raising as to separate language forms that
students believe to be indispensable for language acquisition. Experiential learning activities and
cultural orientation of the method are discussed, as well as some peculiarities of using it in courses
of different levels within a commercial English language program.
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The growing use of English as the language of global communication leads to the
growing demand for learning it among adult population of non-English-speaking countries. If such
people did not have a chance of acquiring English during their school or university years but
urgently need it for professional or personal purposes, they learn it in courses offered by numerous
commercial language schools and centers. This article deals with the experience of teaching English
at such schools and centers in Ukraine. The way of teaching and learning suggested in the article
was developed to meet students’ expectations and, at the same time, to be in full accordance with
the most cutting edge achievements in today’s approaches to organizing adult students’ successful
language acquisition. The developed method of teaching/learning was called the communicativeanalytic
one since, on the one hand, it makes use of the best in communicative language learning
required for optimal attainment of the final goal of language education for adults – developing their
English communicative competence. On the other hand, the communicative approach is combined
with learners’ analysis, practicing, and consciousness-raising as to separate language forms that
students believe to be indispensable for language acquisition. Experiential learning activities and
cultural orientation of the method are discussed, as well as some peculiarities of using it in courses
of different levels within a commercial English language program.
Ключові слова
learning English as the language of global communication, English language education for adults, commercial English language schools and centers, communicative-analytic approach to teaching and learning English