The origins of Communicative Language Teaching are
found in the changes in the British language teaching
tradition in the late 1960s
Situational Language Teaching
represented the major approach to
teaching English as a foreign language.
CLT is that it pays systematic attention
to functional as well as structural
aspects of language.
APPROACH
Theory of
Language
The communicative Approach in
language teaching starts from a
theory of language as communication.
In Hymes's view, knowledge and ability
for language use with respect to
1. Whether something is formally possible.
2.Whether something is feasible.
3.Whether something is appropriate in
relation to a context. 4.Whether something
is in fact done, actually performed.
Seven basic functions that language
performs for children learning their
first language.
An influential analysis of communicative
competence was found in Canale & Swain
(1980), in which four dimensions of
communicative competence are identified:
Characteristics of this
communicative view of
language follow
1. Language is a system. 2. Interaction
and communication.. 3,Funtional and
communicative uses. 4.. Grammatical
and structural features.
Theory of
Learning
Elements of an underlying
learning theory.
>The communication principle, >The
task principle, >The meaningfulness
principle.
DESIGN
Objectives
>An integrative and content level >A
linguistic and instrumental level >An
affective level of interpersonal
relationships and conduct >A level of
individual learning needs >A general
educational level of extra-linguistic goals.
Syllabus
One of the first syllabus models to be
proposed was described as a notional
syllabus (Wilkins, 1976), which specified
the semantic- grammatical categories and
the categories of communicative function
that learners need to express.•
Communicative
syllabus types.
1. Structures plus functions. 2.Functional
spiral around a structural core.
3.Structural, functional, instrumental.
4.Functional. 5.Notional. 6.Interactional.
7.Task-based. 8.Learner-generated.
Types of learning and
teaching activities
The range of exercise types and
activities compatible with a
communicative approach is unlimited.
Exercises enable learners to attain communicative objectives of
the curriculum, engage Ss in communication, require the use of
communicative processes like information sharing, negotiation
of meaning, and interaction.
Classroom activities are often designed to focus on
completing tasks that are mediated through language or
involve negotiation of information and information sharing.
Learner roles
The learner is a negotiator .
The implication is that the learner should contribute as
much as he gains, and learn in an interdependent way.
Teacher roles
Teachers assumed the role of need analyst,
counselor, and group process manager.