| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 第1-7页 |
| CONTENTS | 第7-9页 |
| 1 INTRODUTION | 第9-13页 |
| 1．1 Statement of the problem | 第10-11页 |
| 1．2 research questions | 第11-13页 |
| 2 EVALUATION OF MAJOR TRADITIONAL TEACHING METHODS | 第13-17页 |
| 2．1 Grammar -Translation method | 第13-14页 |
| 2．1．1 Theory and technique | 第13页 |
| 2．1．2 Assessment | 第13-14页 |
| 2．2 Audio-lingual method | 第14-15页 |
| 2．2．1 Theory and Technique | 第14-15页 |
| 2．2．2 Assessment | 第15页 |
| 2．3 Our communicative need in language learning | 第15-17页 |
| 3 RATIONALE OF COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING | 第17-38页 |
| 3．1 Some general considerations in communicative activities | 第17-19页 |
| 3．1．1 purposes of communicative activities | 第17-18页 |
| 3．1．2 Learner-directed activity | 第18-19页 |
| 3．1．3 Teacher's role in communicative activities | 第19页 |
| 3．1．4 Types of communicative activity | 第19页 |
| 3．2 Functional communicative activities | 第19-29页 |
| 3．2．1 Sharing information with restricted cooperation | 第20-24页 |
| 3．2．2 Sharing information with unrestricted cooperation | 第24-27页 |
| 3．2．3 Sharing and processing information | 第27-28页 |
| 3．2．4 Processing information | 第28-29页 |
| 3．3 Social interaction activities | 第29-38页 |
| 3．3．1 the classroom as a social context | 第31-35页 |
| 3．3．2 simulation and role-playing | 第35-38页 |
| 4 THE COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH IN THE CLASSROOM | 第38-70页 |
| 4．1 What to teach in the classroom | 第38-53页 |
| 4．1．1 Choosing course -content | 第38-41页 |
| 4．1．2 Organizing course-content | 第41-45页 |
| 4．1．3 C heck-lists for predicating communicative needs | 第45-53页 |
| 4．2 How to teach | 第53-70页 |
| 4．2．1 Design communicative tasks | 第53-55页 |
| 4．2．2 Communicative classroom activities | 第55-67页 |
| 4．2．3 Ways of managing a communicative classroom | 第67-70页 |
| 5 CONCLUSION | 第70-73页 |
| REFERENCES | 第73-78页 |
