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Communicative Language Teaching For The Twenty-First Century
Communicative Language Teaching For The Twenty-First Century
INTRODUCTION
What is CLT
The four skills: reading, writing, speaking, listening. In the past Speaking & writing ( active skills) Reading & listening (passive skills)
Today
Speaking, writing, reading & listening ( active skills) Then, new terms appeared: Productive & Receptive. The terms that best represent the collaborative nature of language communication are:
is the system of linguistic knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language Is the use of language in social context. Is the ability of classroom language learners to interact with other speakers, to make meaning, as distinct from their ability to recite dialogs or perform on discrete-point tests of grammatical knowledge.
Communicative competence:
Strategic competence
refers to the individual's ability to use communication strategies such as paraphrase, literal translation, guessing the meaning, and body language to get their message across, and to compensate for a limited or imperfect knowledge of rules
CLT Activities
Games,
Role-play,
Pair/Group Work
Grammatical competences.
It is the ability to recognize the lexical,
morphological, syntactic, and phonological feature of language and to make use of these features to interpret and form words and sentences.
In other words: not stating a grammatical rule BUT using it in your communication.
Discourse Competences
Concerned NOT with isolated words or phrases BUT
with the interconnectedness of series of utterances, written words or phrases from a text, a meaningful whole. Concept related to Discourse Competences:
Socio-Cultural Competences
is the social rules of language use.
Strategic competences
This means teaching language for communication but a communication for which a learner is wanting to work.
3 Personal Language:
this looks at learner as an individual with a pre-defined set of psychological strands. This must not, as it cannot, be overlooked while shaping curriculum, e.g., it demands certain respect for learner.
This centers on bringing the learner to environment beyond the classroom. If they visit a courtroom trail, a production proceeding in factors, etc., they will get to know real language.