Trends in Communicative Language Learning

Md. Sahil Zulfiquer

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What is Communicative Language Teaching? A set of principles about the goals of language

teaching, how learners learn a language, the kind of classroom activities that best facilitates learning and the roles of teachers and learners in the classroom.

Traditional approach Vs Current Communicative approach Traditional: Full Focus on grammatical competence It was believed that language learning meant

building up large repertoire of sentences and grammatical patterns and learning to produce these accurately and quickly in the appropriate situation.

Methodology used here was controlled practice and later on introduce four skill routine- speaking listening, reading and writing

Traditional approach Vs Current Communicative approachCurrent: It is believed that learners learn language

through communicating in it. Live communication provide better

opportunities to learners than through a grammar based approach.

TRENDS IN CLT

Traditional approach carried out till late 60s Classic Communicative language teaching

dates back to late 90s Current Communicative language teaching till

present

Current Approaches

Current approaches to methodology draw on earlier traditions in communicative language teaching and continue to make reference to some extent to traditional approaches.

The approaches

Seeks to develop students communicative competence

Create need for communication, interaction, and negotiation of meaning through the use of activities such as problem solving, information sharing and role play

Provide opportunities for both inductive and deductive grammars

Use of content that connects to students’ lives and interests

Allows personalization of learning

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