Many language learners regard speaking ability as the measure of knowing a language. These learners define fluency as the ability to converse with others, much more than the ability to read, write, or comprehend oral language. They regard speaking as the most important skill they can acquire, and...
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Communication is an exchange of knowledge, information, ideas, opinions, and feelings among people. How We Mainly Communicate We use language to communicate, convey facts and express what we feel about these facts. Words can convey attitudes, but attitudes can also be conveyed by intonation, gesture, and facial expression....
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Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is based on the main goal of involving students in meaningful communication using the target language. There are many activity types that can be used in the classroom to achieve that goal. The following are the main 7 kinds of them. 1. Communicative Activities:...
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Before going through the assumptions and principles in CLT, let’s define the following four main terms related to language teaching. Language Teaching Terminology: Approach = “A set of assumptions dealing with the nature of language, learning, and teaching” Method = “An overall plan for a systematic presentation of...
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