Program

Language is the most important tool in human communication. Today, English has become the number one language for global interaction. In the field of TESL or Teaching English as a Second Language, the main goal among classroom teachers is to provide students with learning experiences which will develop students’ communicative abilities in speaking, listening, writing, grammar, and reading.Thus, this program is designed to offer ESL communicative tasks that will allow learners to gain language confidence and competence in various social interactions. Such tasks are believed to be effective in developing students’ ability to convey and process information either in written or spoken mediums. More than that, these tasks also encourage the students to become independent learners and hopefully make them more productive and informed citizens in their respective communities.
 

In order to achieve these goals, this program is focused on designing classroom activities that are essentially based on the communicative principle. Under this principle, the main teaching goal is to encourage the student to communicate using English. The lessons cover meaningful content that reflects realistic situations and demands rather than a heavy emphasis on grammatical structures.
 

Students usually perform a specific task in a group or in pairs. The student is the central figure in the learning process while the teacher serves as a facilitator who provides feedback when necessary. Factors such as the students’ cultural backgrounds, learning styles, and learning goals are also considered to fully understand student needs. The goal of this program is to fully integrate all the skills with well-balanced communicative tasks for the students.
 

Using a communicative approach in teaching English teaching provides three major benefits to ESL students. First, it gives second language learner more opportunities and experiences in order to turn the language into a more functional and comprehensible tool. Second, an ESL communicative task allows learners to produce language output in a context that also helps other students understand their messages better. Third, it also transforms the classroom setting into a real-life situation where people communicate with each other. This program is designed to be able to address all these benefits of Communicative Language Teaching.