Tema-1 “ LANGUAGE AS COMMUNICATION: ORAL AND WRITTEN ...

5) To analyze the activities proposed in order to see if they fulfil
the conditions for a significant learning. In this point, it is specially
important to pay attention to the activities that must be done in
the different moments of the process of learning and teaching.
6) To adapt these materials and didactic recourses to the
educative context in which they are used.
+From a communicative point of view, in our area, language teaching sees
materials as a way of influencing the quality of classroom interaction. The primary
role of materials is therefore to promote communicative language use.
4.
Methodological principles:
+In the case of our area, as explained in the first part of this theme we will have
to take into account the guidelines given in the introduction of our Primary Curriculum,
Royal Decree 14/9/ 91, which establishes the minimum teaching requirements in
Primary Education.
1.English teaching does not involve teaching a language , but teaching to
communicate in English. This means that we will adopt a communicative
approach which aims at the acquisition of a communicative competence.
2.We should favour functional learning. This means that the students should be
able to use the language in communicative situations.
3.We should promote meaningful learning. This entails that the learners will build
up their own linguistic competence by using learning strategies and by making
hypotheses about me way in which language works starting from the linguistic
input.
4.English teaching should provide students with both a new linguistic experience
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