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Communicative Language Teaching

CLT focuses on developing students' communicative competence by engaging them in meaningful tasks and activities that require them to use language functionally. It emphasizes using language for real communication rather than just studying its structure. Key aspects include focusing on language functions, contexts, and using language to accomplish different purposes. Suggested activities include role-plays, cooperative games, simulations, and storytelling - all of which prioritize communicating real information over just practicing grammar. The continuum shows a shift from non-communicative to fully communicative language use.

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Communicative Language Teaching

CLT focuses on developing students' communicative competence by engaging them in meaningful tasks and activities that require them to use language functionally. It emphasizes using language for real communication rather than just studying its structure. Key aspects include focusing on language functions, contexts, and using language to accomplish different purposes. Suggested activities include role-plays, cooperative games, simulations, and storytelling - all of which prioritize communicating real information over just practicing grammar. The continuum shows a shift from non-communicative to fully communicative language use.

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Communicative

Language Teaching
(CLT)
Prepared by:
Nur Azam
Muhammad Akmal

What is CLT?
O learning language successfully

comes through having to


communicate real meaning.
O Example: Activity involving inquiry to
get information.

Source: British Council (BBC)

What is CLT?
O Communicative language sets as its

goal the teaching of communicative


competence. Jack C. Richards,
Communicative Language Teaching
Today

What is CLT?
O Instead of concentrating solely on

grammar looked at what notions


language expressed and what
communicative functions people
performed with language. Wilkins,
1976

The Major Strand


O If the students are involved in

meaning-focused communicative
tasks, then language learning will
take care of itself. Jeremy Harmer

Aspects of Communicative
Competence
Different
purposes and
functions

Vary settings
and
participants

Understand
and produce
diff texts
types

Maintain
communicatio
n even with
limitation

Suggested Activities
Role-play

Cooperativ
e puzzle
solving

Newspaper
headlines
simulation

Construct
a story

The Continuum
NonNoncommunicati
communicati
ve
ve

Communicati
Communicati
ve
ve

One
One language
language
item
item

Variety
Variety
language
language

Form
Form not
not
content
content

Content
Content not
not
form
form

No
No
communicative
communicative
purpose
purpose
No
No
communicative
communicative
desire
desire

Jeremy Harmer, 2013

Communicative
Communicative
purpose
purpose
A
A desire
desire to
to
communicate
communicate

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