Comunicative Languague Teaching (CLT)

1. History of CLT

2. Communicative Languege Teaching CLT was said to have originated from Britian during the 1960s. I served as a replacement to the popular method known as Situational language teaching which is based on the structural view of language. Linguist Noam Chomasky criticized the structural linguistics because it was not enough to cover syntax since there would be infinity of sentences that could be said. What Chomasky proposed that a set of parameters must be created that would be able to generate all the possible sentences in a language.

3. The communicative method or communicative teaching of the language (Communicative Language Teaching, CLT) is an approach in the teaching of languages in which the utmost importance is given to interaction as a means and as the final objective in learning a language. It is also known as a communicative approach.

4. Characteristics Of Communicative Language Teaching

4.1. -Emphasis on gruop.

4.2. -Social Context is important in the classroom.

4.3. -Teachers promote comunication.

4.4. -Focus on meaning.

5. Advantage CLT.

5.1. Communicative approach is much more pupil-orientated, because it is based on pupils’ needs and interests.

5.2. Seeks to use authentic resources. And that is more interesting and motivating for children

5.3. Communicative approach seeks to personalise and localise language and adapt it to interests of pupils. Meaningful language is always more easily retained by learners.

6. Disadvantage CLT.

6.1. It pays insufficient attention to the context in which teaching and learning take place

6.2. the CLT approach focuses on fluency but not precision.

6.3. Some students are shy they prefer not to do spesking activities.

6.4. The classroom would not have enough materials or space.

7. Proposals to put CLT into practice in El Salvador.

8. The teacher must be understanding with the students.

9. Promoing group work in classs.

10. From role- play activities.

11. Teach the student not to be shy when speaking.

12. What is CLT

13. What is the origin of CLT

14. The origins of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) are to be found in the changes in the British language teaching tradition dating from the late 1960s. Until then, Situational Language represented the major British approach to teaching English as a foreign language. In Situational Language Teaching, language was taught by practicing basic structures in meaningful situation-based activities.

15. British applied linguists emphasized another fundamental dimension of language that was inadequately addressed in current approaches to language teaching at that time - the functional and communicative potential of language. They saw the need to focus in language teaching on communicative proficiency rather than on mere mastery of structures.

16. Hymes (1972) claimed that the competence-performance description devised by Chomsky did not deal with the appropriateness of the socio-cultural significance of an utterance in the situational and verbal context where it is applied.

17. The communicative competence as Hymes (1972) devised it, made some important shifts in ESL teaching regarding teaching materials design and teaching methodology. Communicative competence presented in the 1970s and eventually applied these changes in ESL teaching field. Chomsky (1965) presented the terms ‘competence’ and ‘performance’ in modern linguistics (Canale and Swain, 1980). Chomsky claimed the term ‘competence’ refers to the linguistic system, whereas ‘performance’ basically involved in the perception and production of speech.

18. How our education system would be if they stop using the tradicional way?

19. The teacher must be dynamic in his classes and make the students participate in classes.

20. More emphasis on practical utility.

21. The student could have better learning level.