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Communicative Language Teaching

Majid Al-Humaidi

Reviewed by

Faisal Rahman

Introduction

What is Communicative Language Teaching? How to use it in class? What are the advantages and disadvantages of Communicative Language Teaching?. The writer of this article answered the questions above, He mentioned that Communicative Language Teaching was found at
1970s. He told what it is actually, how to use it, and some other information about it. This article is interesting, but incomplete.

Summary

In this article, the writer wrote that Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) was found by the Council of Europe experts at 1970s. It is an approach of teaching a language, different with a method because it gives the teachers a chance to make a class based on their creativity and innovation. This approach focuses on the practicality of language, not worry about the grammatical of the language. This approach makes a more communicative class rather than a method, the creativity and innovation of teacher is very important to apply this approach, however, the central of teaching learning process is not the teacher, but the students. But the requirement to apply this approach is difficult, they are the facilities and the class should be appropriate with group work. Based on that requirement, this approach is very difficult to apply in Saudi context because the facilities of the schools there are not designed to group work, the important requirement of this approach.

Critic

This article is incomplete, there are many information that are missed, actually in the advantages and disadvantages of Communicative Language Teaching, he just told about the advantages and disadvantages in general context.

But, this article is interesting because the writer tried to elaborate about Communicative Language Teaching from another view that is rarely known by people, beside that he also mentioned what teachers need to use this approach in class and how to make it effective.

In addition, something that makes this article interesting is it also told about the other information such the usage of Communicative Language Teaching in Saudi context which is he mention that this approach is not appropriate in Saudi context because of the rule of the curriculum the facilities, unless the teachers should use their own money to get the facilities to create this approach in class.

Conclusion

            This article told that Communicative Language Teaching is not a method but an approach of teaching language, this approach focuses on the students ability of using language, the teacher should be more creative to use this approach, the requirement of this approach is difficult such us the facilities in class and this approach is not appropriate in Saudi context.

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