Research in the Language Laboratory:Communication Language Teaching Approach in Vocabulary Building of English Language

Communication language teaching is an approach to the teaching of second and foreign languages that emphasises interaction as both the means and the ultimate goal of learning a language. It fosters the use of appropriate, positive learning strategies. It basically makes use of real life situations that students are likely to encounter m real life. Students' motivation to learn comes from their desire to communicate in meaningful ways about meaningful topics. The researcher has used this approach m the language laboratory. The study was conducted upon eighth standard students for a period of fifteen days. A schedule involving communication language teaching approach combined with vocabulary building exercise was developed and experimental method and two group pre-test and post-test design was used. Tools used were self made questionnaires of vocabulary building and communication skills. Statistical techniques mean and standard deviation were used to classify the data and t-test was employed to analyze the scores, ft was found that communication language teaching approach has a significant effect on the vocabulary building of students.