On Context Theory and Interactive Language Teaching

Jixin Liu

doi:10.31686/ijier.vol3.iss11.479

Authors

Jixin Liu

China West Normal University, China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol3.iss11.479

Keywords:

context, interactive language teaching, context theory, comprehension, production, context building, communicative competence

Abstract

In this paper, the author explores the importance of context in interactive language teaching and how to make the classroom activities interactive through the application of context theory from the perspective of comprehension (listening, reading) and production (speaking and writing) and how to build context in foreign language classroom in accordance with the linguistic rules of English to promote the students’ communicative competence in the context.

Author Biography

Jixin Liu, China West Normal University, China

Lecturer, School of Foreign Languages

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