COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMMUNICATIVE AND STRUCTURAL APPROACH FOR TEACHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Abstract

The current study investigated into the comparison of Communicative approach and Structural approach. The research was experimental in nature. The population of the study was 22 the students of matriculation of the Educators School at District Sahiwal in Punjab Pakistan. The students were taught by the Teachers using both approaches for 30 days. Perceptions of the students were also taken through questionnaire and data collected were analyzed on SPSS version 21 and results were shown with mean, standard deviation and Error. The experiment revealed that there was no any significance difference in the likings of the students at secondary level to the communicative and structural approaches. However, students showed their likings towards structural approach but they did not put back the importance of communicative approach as well.