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Academia.edu no longer supports Internet Explorer. To browse Academia.edu and the wider internet faster and more securely, please take a few seconds to upgrade your browser. 2018, Communicative Language Teaching: Possible Alternative Approaches to CLT and Teaching Contexts There are various approaches of language teaching, in which communicative language teaching is the dominant approach worldwide. CLT approach allows language learners to express themselves and their views through collaborative activities undertaken during classes. This descriptive study has discussed CLT, offering both advantages and limitations.

The CLT approach has led to major changes in such ways, in which language is taught and learnt. CLT aims to make "commnicative competence" the goal of language teaching and to develop procedures for teaching the four language skills, including listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It is well known that CLT approach allows language learners to express themselves and their views through collaborative activities, undertaken during classes. CLT, which is applied in schools, universities, colleges, and language institutes in most countries worldwide, stimulates learners' interests in learning by infusing the learning environment with new types of activities and materials that are... CLT is becoming a major language and its being used worldwide. The learners of the language are more focused towards learning the concepts.

The emphasize is not towards understanding the language structures and lexical collocations. The main aim of the CLT is to make individuals competent in communication. The call to change seems to be a constant in education. In second language education, a constellation of changes have been proposed and, to some extent, implemented. This constellation of interconnected changes can perhaps best be termed a paradigm shift, with this paradigm fitting under the general umbrella of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). The concept of paradigm shift usefully offers one means of making such connections between the changes linked to CLT.

The article attempts to put the CLT paradigm shift into perspective as an element of larger shifts from positivism to post-positivism and from behaviorism to cognitivism. This article describes eight changes that fit with the CLT paradigm shift in second language education. These eight changes are: learner autonomy, the social nature of learning, curricular integration, focus on meaning, diversity, thinking skills, alternative assessment, and teachers as co-learners. The authors argue that in second language education, although the CLT paradigm shift was initiated many years ago, it still has been only partially implemented. Two reasons for this partial implementation are: (1) by trying to understand each change separately, second language educators have weakened their understanding by missing the larger picture; and (2) by trying to implement each...

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Academia.edu no longer supports Internet Explorer. To browse Academia.edu and the wider internet faster and more securely, please take a few seconds to upgrade your browser. 2018, Communicative Language Teaching: Possible Alternative Approaches to CLT and Teaching Contexts There are various approaches of language teaching, in which communicative language teaching is the dominant approach worldwide...

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The CLT approach has led to major changes in such ways, in which language is taught and learnt. CLT aims to make "commnicative competence" the goal of language teaching and to develop procedures for teaching the four language skills, including listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It is well known that CLT approach allows language learners to express themselves and their views through collabo...

The Emphasize Is Not Towards Understanding The Language Structures And

The emphasize is not towards understanding the language structures and lexical collocations. The main aim of the CLT is to make individuals competent in communication. The call to change seems to be a constant in education. In second language education, a constellation of changes have been proposed and, to some extent, implemented. This constellation of interconnected changes can perhaps best be t...

The Article Attempts To Put The CLT Paradigm Shift Into

The article attempts to put the CLT paradigm shift into perspective as an element of larger shifts from positivism to post-positivism and from behaviorism to cognitivism. This article describes eight changes that fit with the CLT paradigm shift in second language education. These eight changes are: learner autonomy, the social nature of learning, curricular integration, focus on meaning, diversity...