There are many overlaps between the Communicative Approach, ESL and Two Way Immersion Bilingual Education.
In Communicative Approach, you use the target language from Day 1, so students do not translate from their L1 and can directly associate the L2 vocabulary word without having to translate from their L1.
In the Two Way Immersion Approach, students are allowed to their L1 to learn their L2. For instance, Spanish speakers are grouped with English Native Speakers and the two groups want to learn each others' language. The Spanish Speakers want to learn the English from the English NS while the English NS want to learn the Spanish from the Spanish NS. There is an ESL teacher present to teach the academic content in the ESL portion of the class and there is a Spanish teacher present to teach the Spanish portion of the lesson. The Communicative Approach can be used to teach the Two Way Immersion in each portion of the class.
Both approaches have overlaps in that they promote student interaction, motivate language learning through the Community of Learners model. The teacher develops Social Presence, Cognitive Presence and Teaching Presence in order to get to know her class. The teacher acts as a guide to student language learning. Students bond with each other using the Communicative Approach and when students feel a sense of belonging to the class, then students become highly motivated to learn, and get higher grades with high work ethic.
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