Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) emphasizes meaningful communication over structural accuracy, where students engage in tasks to learn the language through usage. Originating in the late 1960s, CLT encourages interactive teaching methods, promoting fluency and authentic communication while addressing students' needs and interests. Despite its advantages, such as enhanced teacher-student relationships and enjoyable learning experiences, CLT faces challenges like resource requirements and varying student levels.

1. Community Language Learning

2. The Definition Of Communicative Language Teaching
• Communicative Language Teaching is a set of principles about teaching including
recommendations about method and syllabus where the focus is on meaningful
communication not structure, use not usage.
• Students are given tasks to accomplish using language instead of studying the language.
• Learners learn a language through using it to communicate.
• Authentic and meaningful communication should be the goal of classroom activities.
Fluency is an important dimension of communication.
• Learning is a process of creative construction and involves trial and error.

3. Background
The origins of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) are
found in the changes in the British language teaching tradition in
the late 1960s. Situational Language Teaching (SLT) was the
major approach to teaching English as a first language.
Language was taught by practicing basic structures in
meaningful situation-based activities. British applied linguists
rejected the theoretical assumptions underlying second
language learning, because the focus on language teaching was
the mastery of structures rather than on communicative
proficiency.

4. Principles
Set of Principles about:

5. Types Of Learning and Teaching Activities
Translation
Analysis
Group work
Reflection
and
Observation
Recording
Listening
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6. ADVANTAGES
• This technique increases the teacher-student relationship. It
is an interactive relationship
.
• CLT provides the opportunity for students to be aware of
their abilities and exhibit them
.
• The students in this way can learn the target language in an
enjoyable way
.
• Students interest
.
• Students learn inductive techniques.

7. DISADVANTAGES
• The requirements are difficult. Not all classrooms can allow for
group work activities and for teaching aids and materials
.
• It is contraversial whether it can be used in every level of
students
.
• The teacher should prepare the syllabus by taking students
interests and needs into account. However, the energy and
time of the teacher are limited
.
• Risks can be good
.
• The inductive learning method.

8. Reviewing The Principles

9. What are the goals of teachers who
use the CLL Method?
Teachers want their students to learn how to use the target
language communicatively and about their own language.

10. What is the role of the teacher?
What is the role of the students?
The teacher's initial role is primarily that of a counselor.
This does not mean that the teacher is a therapist, or that
the teacher does no teaching.

11. What are some characteristics of
teaching / learning process?
The teacher helps them express what they want to say by
giving them the target language translation in chunks.
These chunks are recorded.

12. What is the nature of student-teacher interaction?
What is the nature of student-student interaction?
The nature of student - teacher interaction changes within
the lesson and over time. Sometimes the students are
assertive, as when they are having a conversation.

13. How are the feelings of the students
dealt with?
Responding to students’ feelings is very important. By
showing students he understands how they feel, the
teacher can help them overcome negative feelings.

14. How is the language viewed?
How is culture viewed?
❖ Language is for communication. Language becomes
the means for developing creative and critical thinking
.
❖ Culture is an integral part of language learning.

15. What areas of language are emphasized?
What language skills are emphasized?
Grammar points, pronounciation patterns, and vocabulary
are worked with the most important skills are
understanding and speaking the language.

16. What is the role of students’ native
language?
The role of native language is to provide a bridge form the
familiar to unfamiliar.

17. How is evaluation accomplished?
Evaluation is conducted should be in keeping with the
principles of the method. A teacher made class room test
would likely be more of an integrative test than discrete
point one.

18. How does the teacher respond to
student errors?
One way of doing this is for the teacher to recast the
student’s error, i.e. to repeat correctly what the student has
said incorrectly.

19. Thank you

20. Present by
Shatha
Rashed