The Communicative Classroom

In Anne Kristine's lesson, at first we discussed about the purposes of learning English, next we talked about features of being a good learner. After we had wrote it with our own words, Kristine showed us 14 real features of being a good learner, and then we compare what we found and what we saw on the paper. Moreover we had learnt that making a learner capable of doing these features was the aim of creating a communicative classroom. Secondly, we mentioned the components of communicative language ability such as linguistic competence, pragmatic competence, discourse competence, strategic competence and fluency. After we had learnt these competences, we tried to relate them the features of being a good learner. Particularly, I would like to say that this information wasn't new for me because I had already seen that in the subject of  "Linguistics" at my university in Turkey.

                               
Thirdly, we talked about gap activities such as information gap activities, reasoning gap activities, opinion gap activities. It was not new for me because I had already known this from "The Methods and Approaches in Language Teaching" lesson in Turkey. Additionally, the information gap activity was rather easier than the others. But I had to say that I really enjoyed applying the reasoning gap activity. It was very good to use in the classroom because everybody likes acting like someone else. And one of the advantages of this activity is that if you were someone, someone else would make mistake when you were wrong. I think it's pretty comfortable to speak in the target language.