The Communicative Language Teaching Approach

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is a language teaching method that emphasizes the importance of communication in real-world situations. CLT focuses on developing students' communicative competence, or their ability to use language effectively and appropriately in different social contexts. CLT does this by engaging students in authentic and interactive learning activities that focus on fluency and appropriateness in communication. CLT also de-emphasizes writing skills and grammatical aspects of communication, and instead emphasizes message and meaning. This paper attempts to highlight the perspective on language and learning, strong and weak versions of Communicative Language Teaching Approach, its features, classroom procedures etc.