Communicative language teaching approach

Communicative language teaching

Made by

Yana kyleshova

Yana minullina

Brief history

-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.

-British linguists saw the need to focus in language teaching on communicative proficiency

Main ideas

“ One of the most characteristic features of communicative language teaching is that it pays systematic attention to functional as well as structural aspects of language”

Advantages

• Communicative approach is much more pupil-orientated
• Communicative approach seeks to personalise and localise language and adapt it to interests of pupils.
• Seeks to use authentic resources.
• Children acquire grammar rules as a necessity to speak so is more proficient and efficient.

Disadvantages

• It pays insufficient attention to the context in which teaching and learning take place
• The Communicative Approach often seems to be interpreted as: “if the teacher understands the student we have good communication”
• Another disadvantage is that the CLT approach focuses on fluency but not accuracy.

Dimension of methodology

-function

-experiental

-communication

-skills

-integrated

-affective

-dialogic

-inductive

-monolingual

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