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This document discusses Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), an approach to teaching second languages that emphasizes interaction and communication as both the means and goal of instruction. CLT focuses on teaching functional language skills that learners can use in real-world situations rather than just grammatical rules. It aims to make learning more relevant to learners' needs and interests. CLT involves teachers acting as facilitators and learners sharing experiences to develop their language abilities through meaningful tasks and interactions using the target language. The goal of CLT is for learners to gain the ability to communicate effectively in the language they are studying.

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Communicative Language Teaching

This document discusses Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), an approach to teaching second languages that emphasizes interaction and communication as both the means and goal of instruction. CLT focuses on teaching functional language skills that learners can use in real-world situations rather than just grammatical rules. It aims to make learning more relevant to learners' needs and interests. CLT involves teachers acting as facilitators and learners sharing experiences to develop their language abilities through meaningful tasks and interactions using the target language. The goal of CLT is for learners to gain the ability to communicate effectively in the language they are studying.

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Polytechnic University of the Philippines

Department of English Foreign Languages and Liguistics


College of Arts in Letters
Anonas St. Sta. Mesa, Manila

Communicative
Language Teaching
Prepared by:
Rosalie Jane O. Cervantes

Course/Year and Section:


AB English 4 3

Professor Xavier Aquino Velasco


What is Communicative
Language Teaching?
An approach to the teaching of second and
foreign languages emphasizes interaction as
both the means and the ultimate goal of
learning a language.
Also known as Communicative Approach.
CLT is a non-methodical system that doe not use a
textbook series but rather works on oral/verbal
skills prior to reading and writing.
BACKGROUND
Noam Chomskys theories in the 1960s gave rise
to communicative language teaching but it was
Michael Halliday who laid the conceptual basis for
CLT; and the one who introduced the idea of
wider communicative competence was Dell
Hymes.
Due to the rapid increase in demand for language
learning, the lack of success using traditional
method was emphasize.
It was not just children who learns second/
foreign language but also adult learners.
Traditional method (such as Grammar Translation)
was aimed for the mastery of the target language
(that leaners who are busy with work and were
less academically gifted cant comply.
They began to use CLT that emphasize on
communicative ability and yielded better results.
MERITS OF CLT
It takes consideration to communicative
dimension of language.
It provides vitality and motivation within the
classroom.
The main focus of CLT is on the interests and
needs of learners.
HOW IT WORKS?
It focuses on the teacher being facilitator rather
than instructor.
Learners share their experiences and teacher
teach topics promoting language skills in all types
of situation.
CLT organizes a syllabus according to the notional
and functional categories of language rather than
on structures.
SYLLABUS
interactions using language to communicate

Using language to perform meaningful tasks.

Putting the learners interests that needs in the


forefront.
The goal of Communicative
Language teaching (CLT) is to
be able to communicate in
the target language.
References
www.myenglishpages.com/blog/communicative-
language-teaching-communicative-approach/

https://en.m.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicative_l
anguage_teaching

http://www.ecml.at/Portals/1/documents/related-
research/projectseminarDN.pdf?ver=2010-05-26-
090706-727

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