Communicative Language Teaching originated in the 1970s as educators and linguists grew dissatisfied with previous methods like audiolingualism and grammar translation. It focuses on developing students' communicative competence, including linguistic competence, socio-linguistic competence, discourse competence, and strategic competence. Teachers set up meaningful, real-world situations where students are motivated to communicate and use language interactively and appropriately within social contexts. The teacher acts as a guide while students do most of the speaking. Functional communication activities and social interactions like conversations, discussions, dialogues and role-plays are used.

1. Communicative Language Teaching