Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) aims to promote effective communication and language use. It began in the 1960s as a reaction against traditional grammar-based teaching. Some key principles of CLT are that the goal is to enable students to communicate in the target language, the teacher acts as a facilitator of learning activities that promote student interaction, and students learn by negotiating meaning in authentic contexts.

1. COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE
TEACHING(CLT)

2. BACKGROUND
Mankind has tried to transmit the heritage of
languages going from the simple to the complex
or in other words from the traditional patterns to
the innovation and as long as it has been
developed it suffered modifications. At this point
our approach to language teaching is called
CLT, it`s roots in the idea that the goal of language
learning is to become good at communicate in a
real context . Beginning in the 1960s, British
applied linguists developed the communicative
approach as a reaction away from grammar-
based approaches.
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3. PRINCIPLES
 THE GOAL IS TO ENABLE STUDENTS TO COMMUNICATE
IN THE TARGET LANGUAGE. PROMOTES
COMMUNICATION AMONG STUDENTS.
 FACILITATOR. MANAGER OF LEARNING ACTIVITIES.
PROMOTES COMMUNICATION AMONG STUDENTS.
 TEACHER ROLO IS TO PROMOTE COMUNICATION.
STUDENTS LEARN TO COMMUNICATE BY NEGOTIATING
MEANING IN REAL CONTEXT.
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4. TEACHER ARRANGES TASKS FOR COMMUNICATION.
STUDENS INTERACTION.
STUDENTS ARE MOTIVATED TO LEARN THROUGH
USEFULNESS OF LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS.
LANGUAGE IS FOR COMMUNICATION. EVERYDAY
LIFESTYLE OF PEOPLE WHO USE IT.
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5. FUNCTION OVER FORM. DISCOURSE AND
SOCIOLINGUISTIC COMPETENCE + ALL 4 SKILLS.
GENERALLY NOT USED.
COMMUNICATIVE TESTS. FLUENCY AND ACCURACY.
NO ERROR CORRECTION UNLESS ERRORS INTERFERE
WITH COMMUNICATION.
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6. TECHNIQUES:
*AUTHENTIC MATERIALS:
To overcome the typical problem that students cannot
transfer what they learn in the classroom to the
outside world and to expose students to natural
language in a variety of situations.
*SCRAMBLE SENTENCES:
The students are given a passage in which the
sentences are in a scrambled order. This may be a
passage they have worked with of one they have not
seen before. They are told to unscramble the
sentences so that the sentences are restored to their
original order.
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7. * LANGUAGE GAMES:
Games are used frequently in CLT. The students find
them enjoyable, and if they are properly designed, they
give the students valuable communicative practice.
*PICTURE STRIP STORY:
Many activities can be done with picture strip stories.
*ROLE PLAY:
Teacher s gives the students an opportunity to practice
communicating in different social contexts and in
different social roles. Role plays can be set up so that
they are very structured or in less structured way.
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