Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Current Trends in Communicative
Language Teaching
- Communicative competence as the goal of
second and foreign language teaching.
- It can be applied in different ways, depending
on the teaching context, the age of the
learners, their level, their learning goals
- Core Assumptions of CLT
- Interaction and meaningful communication
- Students processing content
- Use of several language skills or
modalities
- Inductive learning and language analysis and reflection
- Gradual process
- The final goal is to communicate accurately and fluently.
- Learners develop their own routes to language learning
- Effective learning and
communication strategies
- The role of the teacher as facilitator
- Collaborative learning
- Classroom Activities
- Seek to develop students’ communicative competence
- Create the need for communication
- Provide opportunities for both inductive and
deductive learning of grammar
- Make use of content that connects to students’ lives
- Allow students to apply what they have
learned to their own lives
- Allow students to personalize learning by applying what
they have learned in their own lives
- Shift to CLT
- Move from teacher-centered instruction to learner-centered instruction
- Focusing greater attention on the learning process rather
than the products that learners produce
- Focusing greater attention on the learning process rather
than the products that learners produce
- Diversity among learners
- The uniqueness of each context
- Promote holistic learning
- Helping students to understand the purpose of learning and
develop their own purpose
- A whole-to-part orientation instead of a part-to-whole approach
- An emphasis on the importance of meaning rather than
drills and other forms of rote learning
- Learning as a lifelong process
- 8 major changes in approaches to language teaching
- Learner autonomy
- The social nature of learning
- Curricular integration
- Diversity
- Thinking skills
- Alternative assessment
- Teachers as co-learners
- Language syllabus today needs to include:
- Language skills
- Content
- Grammar
- Vocabulary
- Functions