ApplyingCommunicativeApproachinGrammarTeachinginMiddleSchool

毕业论文（设计）1 IntroductionGrammar teaching has always been one of the most controversial and leastunderstood aspects of language teaching.There are three main traditional languageteaching methods,Grammar-Translation Method,Direct MethodandAudio-Lingual Method,which had dominated the FLT field for a long period.Thestatus of grammar teaching in these three teaching methods was different.However,inChina,grammar teaching is always the key teaching content in ELT.Chinese studentsspend years studying grammar,but most of them,even the students who can get highmark in the exam still have difficulties in using English in communication effectively.This inability reflects that traditional grammar teaching greatly limits students'communicative competence in the real life,which departed from the goals of grammarteaching.Therefore,Communicative Approach appears to be a most popular teachingmethod in grammar teaching.CA offers more opportunities for students to learn grammar in an interesting andactive way.Understandably,there came some problems when CA was first introducedand applied to the Chinese situation.Difficulties with the application of CA include,among others,lack of real language environment,the large number of students in oneclass and so on.What's worse,some teachers are often confused by a swarm of mixedmessages about the place of grammar teaching in the communicative languageclassroom.They even doubt that whether CA may involve neglecting role of grammarteaching.The purpose of the dissertation is to help teachers to understand the rightrelationship between CA and grammar teaching,and try to explore an optional2