【Brief,Survey,of,the,Communicative,Approach,and,the,Strategy,of,Improving,the,Students,Communicative,Competence】by the end of

　　Abstract：With the rapid development of economy and improvement position of English as an international language in our country，English teaching draw a lot of attention nowadays. In traditional English teaching，it"s the teachers who manipulate everything in class，where students are seen as receivers of knowledge. Therefore，it lacks cooperation between teachers and students. Students have no opportunity to apply what they have learnt in class to practical communications. In this teachers-centered class，students are not able to bring themselves into full play，which explains the low quality of English teaching in some schools and students fail to communicate with others after many years" learning. Based on the theory of Communicative Approach，the paper analyses its advantages and existing problems in application and proposes some strategy of improving students"Communicative Competence.
　　Key words：Communicative Approach；Communicative Competence；Strategy.
　　中图分类号：G642.0 文献标志码：A 文章编号：1674-9324（2012）08-0070-03
　　1.Chapter One Brief Survey of the Communicative Approach
　　1.1The background of the CA
　　At the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s，the rise of sociolinguistic pragmatics，discourse analysis，the theory of Communicative Competence，etc. started a revolution in the field of linguistics. Many linguists began to view language not only in terms of its structure，but also in terms of the communicative functions that it performs（Brumfit，C. J. & Johnson，K，1979）. The shift of emphasis in the aim of linguistic study exerted a great influence on language teaching，and finally it led to a new approach in language teaching-the Communicative Approach，whose teaching goal is to train and develop the students" linguistic competence，as well as their communicative competence.
　　1.2 Theoretical Bases
　　1.2.1 Theory of language.The CA in language teaching starts from a theory of language as communication. The goal of language teaching is to develop what Hymes（Hymes，1972）referred as “communicative competence”，a term which is proposed first in his famous paper On Communicative Competence. Hymes"s theory of communicative competence was a definition of what a speaker needs to know in order to be competent in a speech community.（He Zhaoxiong&Mei Deming，1998：7）In his view，a person who acquires communicative competence acquires both knowledge and ability for language use with respect to：（1）whether（and to what degree）something is formally possible；（2）whether（and to what degree）something is feasible，which is related to learner"s cognitive ability to recognize the feasibility of something uttered or written；（3）whether（and to what degree）something is appropriate covered what Chomsky categorizes as performance，and Hymes further broadens it by including contextual appropriateness and sociocutural acceptability.