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    Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) means different things to different teachers, ranging from a greater emphasis on using the target language in class to a focus on oral communication. CLT was influenced by applied linguists in Britain who doubted the efficacy of situational language teaching and were influenced by Chomsky's insights showing that structural theories could not explain real communication. CLT aims to teach communicative competence rather than just grammatical competence, focusing on using language for different purposes and varying language use appropriately according to context.

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    Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) means different things to different teachers, ranging from a greater emphasis on using the target language in class to a focus on oral communication. CLT was influenced by applied linguists in Britain who doubted the efficacy of situational language teaching and were influenced by Chomsky's insights showing that structural theories could not explain real communication. CLT aims to teach communicative competence rather than just grammatical competence, focusing on using language for different purposes and varying language use appropriately according to context.

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    Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) means different things to different teachers, ranging from a greater emphasis on using the target language in class to a focus on oral communication. CLT was influenced by applied linguists in Britain who doubted the efficacy of situational language teaching and were influenced by Chomsky's insights showing that structural theories could not explain real communication. CLT aims to teach communicative competence rather than just grammatical competence, focusing on using language for different purposes and varying language use appropriately according to context.

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    Communicative Language Teaching

    The term "Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) means different things to different teachers. To
    some teachers, it simply means a greater emphasis on the use of the target language in the classroom,
    and in particular, a greater emphasis on orality.

    Academic influences
    The development of communicative language teaching was also helped by new academic ideas. In
    Britain, applied linguists began to doubt the efficacy of situational language teaching, the dominant
    method in that country at the time. This was partly in response to Chomsky’s insights into the nature of
    language. Chomsky had shown that the structural theories of language prevalent at the time could not
    explain the creativity and variety evident in real communication.

    What Is Communicative Language Teaching? LINA


    Perhaps the majority of language teachers today, when asked to identify the methodology they
    employ in their classrooms, mention “communicative” as the methodology of choice. However,
    when pressed to give a detailed account of what they mean by “communicative,”explanations
    vary widely. Does com-municative language teaching, or CLT, mean teaching conversation, an
    absence of grammar in a course, or an emphasis on open-ended discussion activities as the
    main features of a course? What do you understand by communicative language teaching?

    Communicative language teaching can be understood as a set of prin-ciples about the goals of
    language teaching, how learners learn a language, the kinds of classroom activities that best
    facilitate learning, and the roles of teach-ers and learners in the classroom. Let us examine each
    of these issues in turn.

    The Goals of Language Teaching


    Communicative language teaching sets as its goal the teaching of communica-tive competence.
    What does this term mean? Perhaps we can clarify this term by first comparing it with the
    concept of grammatical competence. Grammatical competence refers to the knowledge we
    have of a language that accounts for our ability to produce sentences in a language. It refers to
    knowledge of the building blocks of sentences (e.g., parts of speech, tenses, phrases, clauses,
    sentence patterns) and how sentences are formed. Grammatical competence is the focus of
    many grammar practice books, which typically present a rule of gram-mar on one page, and
    provide exercises to practice using the rule on the other page. The unit of analysis and practice
    is typically the sentence. While gram-matical competence is an important dimension of
    language learning, it is clearly not all that is involved in learning a language since one can
    master the rules of sentence formation in a language and still not be very successful at being
    able to use the language for meaningful communication. It is the latter capacity which is
    understood by the term communicative competence.

    Communicative competence includes the following aspects of language


    knowledge:
    Knowing how to use language for a range of different purposes and functions

    Knowing how to vary our use of language according to the setting and the participants (e.g.,
    knowing when to use formal and informal speech or when to use language appropriately for
    written as opposed to spoken communication)

    Knowing how to produce and understand different types of texts

    (e.g., narratives, reports, interviews, conversations)

    Knowing how to maintain communication despite having limitations in one’s language


    knowledge (e.g., through using different kinds of communication strategies)

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