Review to the research work on the “Effective methods and activities in Communicative language teaching”

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To the research work on the “Effective methods and activities in Communicative language teaching”
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This work is focused on the integrating listening and speaking skills to facilitate communicative competence in teaching ESP through podcasts and blogs.
The research work is about integrating listening and speaking skills to facilitate communicative competence in teaching ESP using podcasts and blogs interactive communicative methods. As the author stated the use of authentic listening materials in podcasts and blogs has been embraced by many instructors and learners in contemporary society. This is given the many advantages that this form of learning has over the use of scripted materials. This includes the irrelevancy of some of the items in the materials and the exorbitant costs that are incurred in accessing these materials by the learners and the instructors in some cases. However, when all the factors are considered, it appears that the use of authentic materials in developing communicative competence of ESP learners via podcasts and blogs.
The author analyzes the role the innovative methods of teaching foreign language, their importance and role in teaching a foreign language (English for Specific Purposes) in the higher educational establishments.
The work consists of the theoretical and practical parts, detailed lesson plan, methods and techniques used during the lesson, conclusion and references on the target research topic. In the work the author gives theoretical background of the target research topic. Here she analyzes the principles of teaching and developing listening and speaking comprehension, challenges in developing communicative competence, the role of the authentic materials in improving communicative competence of ESP learners and proves this with the sample lesson plan. The research work is enriched with conclusion. All the information is proved with examples and practical implementation in teaching process.
As the target research aims to prove that listening and speaking both in practice phase in the classroom and in real communication entail unique features that result in real contribution to overall language learning, as a reviewer I can say that she could gain her aim. As a conclusion I would like to say that the research work meets all the requirements and can be defended.

Reviewer : N.Abbasova