Creating a Communicative Language Teaching Environment for Improving Students’ Communicative Competence at EFL/EAP University Level

Some misconceptions about Communicative Language Teaching

Although Communicative Language Teaching is accepted by many applied linguists and teachers as the most effective approach among those in general use, there are still a number of misconceptions about what it involves. This article sets out four of the main misconceptions and discusses why they have arisen and why they can be seen as misconceptions. In doing this, the article attempts to define ...

Practical Knowledge Growth in Communicative Language Teaching

Communicative language teaching (CLT) is promoted in teacher education programmes around the world, although the appropriateness of this methodology in contexts outside the English-speaking West has been questioned, often from a theoretical perspective. In fact, very little empirical research has been conducted into the practical knowledge of CLT of non-native speaker teachers of English, and t...

Some misconceptions about communicative language teaching

Although communicative language teaching is accepted by many applied linguists and teachers as the most effective approach among those in general use, there are still a number of misconceptions about what it involves. This article sets out four of the main misconceptions, discusses why they have.arisen, and why they can be so described. In doing this, the article attempts to define some importa...

Communicative Competence1 Communicative Competence: A Comparison of Two Approaches

This article is a comparison of the Natural Approach and Communicative Language Teaching. Using the Richards and Rodgers’ model for conceptualizing approaches and methods described in Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching, 1986, Cambridge University Press, I compare and contrast these two approaches carefully at the level of approach, design and procedure. At the level of approach, I look...

Development of Communicative Competence 1 Running head: DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE Development of Communicative Competence Through Private and Inner Speech