The essence and components of the cognitive-communicative approach to the teaching of a foreign language
The cognitive-communicative approach owes its formation and development to the generalizing humanistic approach to the teaching of foreign languages. The main point of humanistic approach is the complex orientation towards the personality of a student. The humanistic direction in psychology, linguistics and didactics led to the appearance of the communicative and cognitive approaches. When we use the cognitive- communicative approach to the teaching of a foreign language a student becomes an active participant of a foreign language teaching process. The cognitive aspect must be included into communicative one and it must be submitted to it