The document explores Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), emphasizing its role in making language education more interactive and meaningful, as opposed to mere memorization of structure. It contrasts the audiolingual method with CLT, highlighting key elements such as the importance of communication, contextualization, and various language functions that support learner engagement. CLT is presented as an approach focusing on developing communicative competence in students and fostering active participation in learning activities.

1. COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING
(CLT)
GROUP “H”
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2.  MahfudZ Hasan/SHUJU
 201012501056

3.  BACK GROUND
 DEFINITION
 ELEMENTs
 DIsTINCTIvE FEATUREs OF THE AUDIOLINGUAL
METHOD AND THE COMMUNICATIvE APPROACH
 APPROACH
 DEsIGN
 PROCEDURE
 CONCLUsION
 vIDEO

4. Communicative Language Teaching
• People who are still alive may not be
separated from communication although it
does not mean all behavior is communication.
• Communication occurs in almost every human
activity and also in education.
• In education, situational language teaching
was delivered by practicing basic structure in
meaningful situation based activities.
Background

5. CLT (COMMUNICTIVE LANGUAGE
TEACHING)
Meaning :
Program of adapting materials to make
lessons or student more communicative and
active.

6. ElEmEnts of clt

7.  Audiolingual
Method
 1. Attends to structure
more than meaning.
 2. Demands
memorization of structure
based dialogs.
 3. Language items are not
necessarily contextualized
 4. Language learning is
learning structure, sounds
or words.
 CLT
 1. Meaning is paramount.
 2. Dialogues, if used,
center around
communicative functions,
and are not normally
memorized.
 3. Contextualization is a
basic principle.
 4. Language learning is
learning to communicate.

8. tHEoRY of lAnGUAGE
The communicative approach in language
teaching starts from theory of language
as communication.
“The goal of language teaching is to
develop communicative competence”.

9. 7 basic
Functions that
Language
performs for
children
learning their
first language.
 The instrumental
function.
 The regulatory
function.
 The interactional
function.
 The personal function.
 The heuristic function.
 The imaginative
function
 The representational
function.
Seven basic functions that language performs
for children learning their first language

10. Design Objectives
the syllabus
the types Of
learning an
teaching activities
learner rOles
teacher rOles
the rOles Of
instructiOnal
material

11. PROCEDURE
PRE-COMMUNICATIVE
STRUCTURAL
ACTIVITIES
QUASI-
COMMUNICATIVE
ACTIVITIES
COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITIES
FUNCTIONAL
COMMUNICATIVE
ACTIVITIES
SOCIAL
INTERACTION
ACTIVITIES

12. cOnclusiOn
CLT is best considered an approach rather
than a method as it refers to a diverse set
of principles that reflect communicative
view of language and language learning.
The goal CLT: To make the students
active in classroom and understand more
about learning materials.

15. “Communicative Language
Teaching (CLT)”
(This presentation is an excerpt of
chapter 14 of “Approaches and
Methods in Language Teaching” by
Jack C Richards & Theodore S
Rodgers)