WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING (CLT)?

The growing need for fluent communication skills in today’s globalized world creates a challenge for foreign language teaching. Students must be given a proper foundation of communication skills that are demanded in different interactive real-world situations outside of the classroom. Students need to be prepared for real-life scenarios instead of just helping them to pass a superficial paper exam.

Communicative teaching methods are currently a popular point of discussion and their effectiveness has been taken into account by language teachers all over the world. This article aims to provide an overview of communicative language teaching  methods and encourage teachers to apply them to their foreign language teaching.