Communicative Language Teaching

1. Approaches

1.1. the CLT stresses the importance of providing learners with opportunities to use English for communicative purposes and attempts to integrate such activities into a wider programme of language teaching (Howatt, 1984)

1.2. Richards and Rogers wrote that aims to make a communicative competence the goal of language teaching an develop procedures of teaching of the four language skills

2. Advantages

2.1. CLT is a hollisctic approach

2.2. CLT is a learner based approach

2.3. CLT provides motivation

3. Design

3.1. syllabus

3.1.1. interactions: using language to communicate

3.1.2. tasks; using language to perform meaningful tasks

3.1.3. learner: putting pearner's interests into the forefront

3.2. teacher' role

3.2.1. a facilitator

3.2.2. an advisor

3.2.3. a co-communicator

4. procedure

4.1. students use English through communicative activities, role olays and puzzles

4.2. they use authentic materials

5. Disadvantages

5.1. little focus on grammar rules

5.2. less usage of formal structures

5.3. organization is difficult, not all classroomms can allow groupwork

6. Elements Of Planning

6.1. objectives

6.1.1. to communicate in authentic siuations

6.1.2. to use and respond to different types of speech

6.1.3. to use language appropriately

6.2. communicative activities

6.2.1. role play

6.2.2. language games

6.2.3. scrambled sentences