Communicative language teaching

Communicative Language Teaching Today Jack C. Richards cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013-2473, USA www.cambridge.org © Cambridge University Press 2006 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge

you prepare? It will be better to choose Communicative Language Teaching as one of the approaches in teaching English. Communicative Language Teaching or CLT derived from communicative competence (Hymes, 1971). It is a teaching approach which has goals, teachers and learners’ roles, process of learning language, and also can facilitate learning activities (Richards, 2006). CLT underlines interaction between students. In the Communicative Language Teaching classroom, the teacher has a role as a facilitator

The Communicative Language Teaching method, or CLT, is a product of the theory of communicated competence in language teaching. Communicative competence focuses on the ability of learners to comprehend and be comprehensible with a certain degree of fluency. The advent of communicative competence signaled a change from the prevailing theory of linguistic competence which focused more on the form and structure of language. However, although CLT heavily focuses on communication with the belief

Communicative Language Teaching This essay will take just a peek at some of the pedagogical aspects of Communicative Language Teaching and the teachers therein. As the U. K. entered the common market (EEC) in the early 1970s. A sharp rise in demand from our new European neighbours for The English Language landed on our shores. Due to the modernization of secondary schools not only in Europe but indeed worldwide, languages were a hot commodity and many were on offer, English being most sort after

The field of second language learning has undergone, in the past few decades, many changes. Nonetheless, from a variety of methods that have come and gone, one has been adopted as pioneer, which is the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach. Nowadays, in fact, Communicative Language Teaching is one of the most common teaching methods adopted by teachers of second and foreign languages all over the world. Its origin can be found in the late 1960s early 1970s in the British academic system

The Goal of Communicative Language Teaching Method: According to Cook (2003), the focus of Communicative Language Teaching Method is primarily social. Therefore, its main goal is to enable the learners to communicate successfully in the target language. In order to achieve that goal, the learners have to be communicatively competent. Communicative competence can be defined according to Saville and Troike (2003) as “What a speaker needs to know to communicate appropriately within a particular language

In the long history of language learning, especially in the case of learning English as L2, educationalists have been tirelessly trying to explore more and more practical approaches that ranged from conventional methods like Grammar translation method, Direct method, Situational Language Teaching etc., to the latest mode of communicative approach. The conventional teaching methods - the unsuccessful result of the earlier language theories, were proved to be ineffective, because it was felt in all

lack of communications in the classroom by clarifying the big rule of Communicative language teaching (CLT) in both, improving communications skills and creating the best field of practicing new vocabulary, grammar rules and pronounce words correctly. I will give a lesson to a number of Intermediate School students from the age of 11 to the age of 15 about one or tow simple rules of grammar using Communicative language teaching methods, and make an interview with each of them (before and after) in

our daily life, an aspect that has led to the continuous demand for learning and teaching of the English language that is widely spoken in the world. It has led to the development of interest in most people to have the desire to enhance their capacity to the use of the language, so as to have a good command of the semantic (Gupta, 2004). However, there are different approaches through which people learn the language that include the formal and informal tactics. The increased interest to learn English

Questions to be dealt in this article with include what is emphasized communicative approach in communicative language teaching and analysis of definition which helps explain communicative language teaching, the next point is how do the roles of the teacher and student change in communicative language teaching and importance of particular roles within the teaching-learning group, and there have been highlighted a few clear benefits like allowing the students to contemplate about some topic and express