THE ROLE OF CLT (COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING) IN LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has been accepted as one of the teaching methods by numerous language teachers due to its major focus on developing learners’ communicative competence. This paper aims to describe communicative language teaching, its practice and the factors leading to teachers. It shows communicative skills, teacher’s role in communicative activities, fluency and accuracy as the main goals and teaching techniques. It then presents three reasons that might lead to teachers’ misinterpretations concerning the practice of CLT.