Teachers have always been pointed as responsible for having to fulfill many roles. Nowadays “The Communicative Teacher” has come into fashion and with it also a heavy burden. This new teacher should devote his or her time and life completely to achieve all the objectives proposed by the communicative approach.
This teacher must deliver a lot in and outside the classroom. This professional should know his/her students and what they bring to the class, their aspirations and expectations from the course, however, the educator should not impose his/her own view of learner’s needs or aspirations. They are just there to make sure learning takes place. This point, as many others within the communicative approach, presents huge difficulties to the teacher since the teacher is also a person who’s got a life and needs, and a vision of why he or she wanted to be a teacher, but if he or she will not be allowed to have a say or is not provided with what is needed to accomplish all the tasks asked for, this teacher will end up, at least, discouraged.
On the other hand, the communicative teacher must be set up with a big set of qualities. He or she should deliver equally to the diversity inside the classroom, stimulating all students to participate, but still keeping control of what happens in the class. This supernatural being should also pay attention to meaning and form, be cultured and resourceful. Finally this approach, as many others lately, states that education should be learner-centered, as if it wasn’t clear enough for the teachers’ depreciation.
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