Competency based language teaching (CBLT) emerged in the United States in the 1970s and was widely used in the 1980s. CBLT is an application of competency based education principles to language teaching, focusing on developing students' knowledge, skills, and behaviors to become autonomous individuals. CBLT teaches language as a function of communication and can be used at all levels to improve student learning and assessment through clear specifications of competencies.

2.  Competency based language teaching
emerged in the united states in 1970.
 Develop the knowlege, skills, and behaviours
of students.
 Widely used in 1980s.

3.  Competency based language teaching is an
application of the principles of competency
based education to language teaching.
 CBE is an educational movement that focuses
on outcomes or output of learning

4.  CBLT is to enable students to become
autonomous individuals.
 CBLT will improve the quality assessment
 CBLT will improve the student learning by
the clear specification.
 CBLT teaches language as a function of
communication.

5.  CBLT cab be used in all levels.
 CBLT same with academic competence
 CBLT is used best for the learners who want
to work and live in english.

6.  Language is vehicle for the expression of
functional meaning.
 Language is a vehicle for the realization of
interpersonal relation.
 Language is tool for the creation and
maintenance of social relations.
 Competency is built around the notion of
communicative competence.
 CBLT shares with behaviorist views of
learning.

7.  Raising awarnesess of the strategies learning
are already using.
 Presenting and modelling strategies.
 Providing multiple practice opportunities.
 Getting learners to evaluate the
effectiveness of the starregies used.

8.  Choosing topics
 Forming groups
 Preparing for discussion
 Giving guidelines
 Evaluating discussions

9.  A focus on successful functioning in society.
 A focus on life skills.
 Task-or performance-centered orientation.
 Modularized instruction.
 Outcomes that are made explicit a priory.
 Continous and ongoing assessment
demonstrated objectives.
 Individulized, student centered instruction.

10.  Students focus on something or language that
will be useful for them once they face the
situation.
 The student builds up self-confidence.
 The language is contextualized.

11.  The focus of a competency could not be
interesting for learners, especially if we
consider the ages and personal background.
 Limited support teachers have to create a
competence based lesson with much more
relia.

12.  CBLT is an educational movement that has
been introduced in several places of the
world, since people need to facenthe
demands of it.
 CBLT involves teachers’ great knowlegde of
student’s contex