摘要
IntroductionAs the SMSTT(Senior Middle School Teachers Training)trainees enter the Communicative classroomwith a history of eight years of learning and teaching English in the Traditional Approach(Grammar-Translation and Audiolingual)behind them,they are confronted with the problem of transition andadaptation.In the early stages of trying to change from traditional to the communicative approaches,theyface the issue of Instruction Comprehension.Instruction Comprehension(IC)means the skill of identifying a given task’s aims and requirements andthen deciding on how best to do the task within the time allowedIC will be discussed in the following sequence:a description of the problem,an analysis of its causes anda set of strategies to tackle the problem.