Nominative – Communicative Research on Teaching Word-Formation

Abstract

This article studies the communicative approach which has been holding a leading position in the field of theory and methodology of foreign language teaching for several years. Why is the communicative approach so popular? The communicative approach of foreign language teaching focuses on the subject-to-subject scheme of communication, that is, the student acts as an active, creative subject of educational activities controlled by the teacher; it promotes the development of students’ creativity and their ability to creative search.