A communicative teacher for Péter Medgyes

Péter Medgyes talks about the communicative approach and also about how a communicative teacher has to be and whay she has to do in her practice.

According to the first idea, it states that is really demanding for teachers because the learners are seen as individuals, and so have to be treated in a particular way.

Talking about the characteristics that a teacher must have, he says that she has to be erudite and versatile, learner-centered, ingenious, confident and with lots of skills that make her be a super teacher aware of everything.

Appart from that, she has to be able to produce real interaction between students, focus on meaning and form, listen carefully to her students, create the adequate conditions to see that learning is taking place and to withdraw form her students.

This is a summary of the main ideas, but a communicative teacher has to be this and even more!!