Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)

How important is the role of teachers in CLT?

Dossier / Travail , 2021 , 13 Pages , Note: 1,0

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The main goal of this paper is to clarify and ask how important is the role of teachers in Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)? To answer this question, CLT is first defined. After that, the development of CLT will be looked at, followed by the most important core assumptions. Then it becomes more school specific and the influence of CLT on the EFL classroom will be analysed, where two other teaching methods that have their origin in CLT will be introduced.

Foreign languages are an important topic in schools, while especially the English language is foregrounded. Learning the English language here in Germany is obligatory with the beginning of school life, even though this might change in the near future. As we all know, the best way to learn a language is to speak it, over and over again. Because without communication and speaking the language, you will never speak a language fluently, no matter how well you master the individual grammatical rules. Of course, also the content of the language someone is learning is important. Consequently, the content needs to be adapted to the respective students and classes in order to prepare these people for mastering real-life situations. Following this, there are several interesting methods of teaching second or foreign languages. One of the most popular methods is called “Communicative Language Teaching”. This method is mainly used when teachers try to teach second languages to students in a communicative way.

Table of contents

1 Introduction

2 Communicative Language Teaching – Definition

3 The change of Communicative Language Teaching over the years

4 Core assumptions of Communicative Language Teaching

5 The impact of Communicative Language Teaching in EFL classroom

6 Different methodologies of Communicative Language Teaching

7 Role of the teacher in Communicative Language Teaching

8 Role of the learner in Communicative Language Teaching

9 Conclusion

10 References

• Université: University of Duisburg-Essen
• Note: 1,0
• Auteur: Moritz Otten (Auteur)
• Année de publication: 2021
• Pages: 13
• N° de catalogue: V1130628
• ISBN (ebook): 9783346496799
• ISBN (Livre): 9783346496805
• Langue: anglais
• mots-clé: Communicative Language Teaching, CLT