Use of Authentic Materials in Teaching Grammar and Vocabulary

Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Grammar, Style, Working Technique, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: This essay shows the use of authentic materials in teaching grammar and vocabulary in a foreign language. Learning the language solely through instruction became a stall method that offered no actual practice on what was learned, no lived experience in using the language and thus did not promote communication skills to the desired degree and also involved students that were not motivated enough. This need led to changes in language teaching and to the Communicative Language Teaching approach which emphasizes language s function as a communicative tool.