a. When the result clause to express a habitual activity or situation. - If I do not eat breakfast, I always get hungry during class
- If I clean this room, I will get concern in class b. When the sentence concerns a particular activity or situation in the
future. - If I do not eat breakfast tomorrow morning, I will get hungry during
class - If the weather is nice tomorrow, we will go on a picnic
c. When the result clause to express an established, predictable fact. - Water will freeze if the temperature goes below 32 F0 C.
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From the statement above, the writer concluded that there are some usages in conditional sentence type 1. And the if-clause is affected by some
situation and predictable fact of the main clause.
B. Communicative Approach
1. The Meaning of Communicative Approach
Janice Yalden said as follows, “In this approach, language is viewed not only as a body of knowledge about sound, vocabulary, and grammar but
also very much as an instrument for interpersonal communication for a whole range of purposes as a wide variety of situation.”
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Jeremy Harmer, who is also interested in communicative approach, stated that a definition about communicative approach that is the focus on
communicative activities and the concentration on language as a mean of communication.
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This is because as one of the approaches in the teaching of
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Azar, Understanding and Using English Grammar … p. 7
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Janice yalden, Communication language Teaching Ontario: The Ontario Institute for studies in education press, p. 6
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Jeremy Harmer, The Practice of English Language Teaching, London: Longman Group UK Etd,1991, p. 48
English with its basic aim to make the students are able to communicative with others in English.
From the description above, the writer concluded that it seems Janice yalden thought that the teaching of English must be about the body of
knowledge and the communicative function of it. Those are the materials of English teaching according to the communicative approach.
Since the communicative capacity becomes the starting points of communicative approach, it needs teachers
‟ creativity to elaborate the situation that can make the students really feel interested and get involved to
the class environment, so that the students expand their ideas accordingly. And the teacher serves as a facilitator who manages classroom activities in the
learning teaching process. Then the students are the communicators who are actively to engage in communication in order the class activities are clearly
and more communicative. And the teacher initiates interactions among the students.
Longman Dictionary of language teaching and applied linguistics defines the communicative approach or communicative language teaching
CLT as an approach to foreign or second language teaching which emphasize that the goal of language learning is communicative competence.
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This approach has been developed by British applied linguistics as reaction away from grammar-based approaches.
From the statement above, the writer concluded that the goal of language teaching based on communicative approach is to develop
communicative competence, it needs to understand the concept of communicative competence.
Communicative competence is the competence which enables us to transmit and interpret messages and give meaning in the interaction between
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Jack C. Richard, Longman Dictionary of language teaching and Applied Linguistics London: Longman Group UK Limited, 1992, p. 65
