Communicative language teaching is a foreign-language teaching approach that emerged in the 1970s, prioritizing a learner's ability to communicate real meaning, through activities such as information-gap tasks, role play and group problem-solving, over the accurate production of isolated grammar forms drilled in earlier methods. It became the dominant paradigm in language teaching internationally from the 1980s onward and underlies most contemporary foreign-language curricula and textbooks.
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Central QuestionHow can learners develop the ability to communicate in the target language? 1 Connections
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Within CLT, the goal is the ability to communicate in the target language.
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Communicative language teaching (CLT), or the communicative approach (CA), is an approach to language teaching that emphasizes interaction as both the means and the ultimate goal of study.
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In 1966, the sociolinguist Dell Hymes posited the concept of communicative competence
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Communicative language teaching (CLT), or the communicative approach (CA), is an approach to language teaching that emphasizes interaction as both the means and the ultimate goal of study.
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Communicative language teaching is a pedagogical application of communicative competence.
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