The approach that emphasizes interaction and communication, often using role-plays, games, and interviews, is known as:

• A. Noam Chomsky
• B. Interactionist Theory
• C. Communicative language teaching or communicative approaches
• D. Universal Grammar

Answer: (C)

The main idea here is a teaching approach that centers on real communication and social interaction in language learning. This method uses activities like role-plays, games, and interviews to provide meaningful practice, with the aim of developing communicative competence—the ability to convey and interpret messages effectively in authentic contexts. That’s why Communicative language teaching or communicative approaches is the best term: it explicitly describes a classroom focus on interaction as the primary vehicle for learning language.

Noam Chomsky is a linguist known for Universal Grammar, a theory about innate language structure, not a classroom method. Universal Grammar refers to that theoretical idea, not how a language is taught. Interactionist Theory can inform how language develops through social interaction, but the widely used classroom label that matches the described emphasis is Communicative language teaching.