COMMUNICATIVE

LANGUAGE
TEACHING
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8 SARIF
DEDE
SITI
HARTINI
YUANDA PINGKY
PRATAMI

SRI EMA SURASDIA

UTARI
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Comunicative LanguageTeaching is an
approach to teach foreign or second
language which emphasizes on
communicative competence. It also
emphasizes on interaction as a means to
teach language. Communicative
Language Teaching replaced the Situation
Language Teaching which had been used
to teach English as a second or foreign
language.
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 The objectives of communicative language teaching are :

1. To make the communicative competence as the goal of

language teaching.
Its mean that the teachers have willing to make an improvement
in students’ language ability through communicative teaching.

2. To develop procedures for the teaching the four language

skills that acknowledge the interdependence of language and
communication.
Its mean that teachers hope through this method, students can
master the four language skills well and can apply in daily
activity.

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 Types of
Communicative
Language
Information-gathering
Task-completion activitiesTeaching activities

Information-transfer activities Opinion-sharing activities

Reasoning-gap activities Role plays

 Characteristics of
Communicative
Language Teaching

Syllabus Student Centered

Communicative Activities Tasks and Materials

 Advantages of Communicative Language Teaching

1. It motivates students to improve their ability of using English

by themselves since it emphasises on fluency in the target
language.

2. CLT focuses on and objectives at communicative

competence.

3. The main part of the learning process is not upon the

teacher for this reason illustrating that CLT classes have moved
from teacher-centeredness to learner-centeredness.

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 Disadvantages of Communicative Language Teaching

1. The method offers priority to meanings and regulations of use

hrather than to grammar and rules of structure. In different words, it is
felt that there is not enough emphasis on the correction of
pronunciation and grammar error.
2. The Comunicative Language Teaching approach focuses on fluency
but not accuracy in grammar and pronunciation.
3. The Comunicative Language Teaching approach is great for
intermediate student and advanced students, but for beginners some
controlled practice is needed Students with low levels of proficiency in
the target language may find it difficult to participate in oral
communicative activities and, if the exams used by any institution are
grammar based, communicative fluency may not be appropriate.
4. The monitoring ability of the teacher must be very good.
5. ComucativeLanguage Teaching is sometimes tough to be
implemented in an EFL classroom due to the lack of sources and
equipments like authentic materials and native speaker teachers as well
as large size of the classes. In addition, suitable classrooms aren’t
available that can permit for group paintings activities and for teaching menu
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