Communicative language teaching (CLT)

1. Communicative Language Teaching(CLT)

COMMUNICATIVE
LANGUAGE
TEACHING(CLT)
CHAPTER 1: PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING AND TASKBASED INSTRUCTION
By: Christina, Cindy, YuJing, Molly, Jing

2. Outline

OUTLINE
I. What is Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
II. 8 Principle of CLT
III. Limitations and Challenges of CLT

3. What is Communicative language teaching (CLT)?

WHAT IS COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING
(CLT)?
• Make use of real-life situation that relies on communication
• Develops a wide range of abilities:
• Linguistic competence
• Sociolinguistic competence
• Discourse competence
• Strategic competence

4. Personal Experiences relating to Communicative Language Teaching

PERSONAL EXPERIENCES RELATING
TO COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE
TEACHING

5. 8 methodological principles of CLT

8 METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF CLT
I.
Use tasks as an organizational principle
II.
Promote learning by doing
III.
Input needs to be rich
IV. Input needs to be meaningful, comprehensible, and elaborated
V.
Promote cooperative and collaborative learning
VI. Focus on form
VII. Provide error corrective feedback
VIII. Recognize and respect affective factors of learning

6. Discussion Question #1

DISCUSSION QUESTION #1
• Reflecting on the 8 Methodological Principles of
Communicative Language Teaching, think back to
your experience of learning English. Do you recall
using any of these methods in the learning
classroom/environment?

7. Limitations and Challenges of CLT

LIMITATIONS AND CHALLENGES OF CLT
• Not a guarantee to a perfect language learning experience
• Language ability can not be measured by one metrics
• Dependency on correct and effective tasks and teaching material

8. Discussion question #2

DISCUSSION QUESTION #2
• Given a list of vocabulary words below, try to memorize everything
in 2 minutes. How easy was it for you to memorize them? Have
you learned them before? If so, do you think that made it easier for
you? Does alphabetically ordered help? If you were given pictures
or a video including a fun activity involving these vocabulary words,
do you think it would be easier to remember, and why?
• Appalachia, Bandana, Catamaran, Gregarious, Igneous, Jacklin,
Kalamazoo, Llama, Nigeria, Quince, Rambunctious, Triple,Violin,
Xenophobic, Zealous.

9. Thank You!

THANK YOU!