Community Language Teaching Ms. Rasha Ali

Introduction Communicative language teaching aims broadly to apply the theoretical perspective of the CA by making communicative competence the goal of language teaching and by acknowledge the interdependence of language and communication.

How to Apply CLT: 1- You can distribute a handout from a recent newspaper of any topic e.g. sport, fashion etc. 2- ask your Ss to underline the reporter’s prediction of the event. 3- Give your Ss the exercise instruction in TL. 4- Listen to your Ss answers. 5- Ask them to unscramble the sentences of the newspaper article. 6- Ask them how do they feel about predictions.

7- If a student make an error, ignore it 7- If a student make an error, ignore it. 8- sits the class into different groups. 9- Give each group a strip story and a task to perform. 10- Ask them to work together to predict what the next picture in the strip story will look like. 11- students will do role play “depends on the giving game” 12- You need to offer advice and answer all groups’ questions.

13- Ask your Ss to make some predictions 13- Ask your Ss to make some predictions. 14- After your Ss finish playing ask them to elicit relevant vocabulary. 15- Give them a homework, e.g. to listen to a debate on the radio or to watch it on TV.

CLT Principles A- Teacher’s goal: To enable students to communicate in the TL. B- Teacher’s role. Student’s role: The teacher simplify communication in the classroom. During activities she acts as an adviser, makes note of their errors to be worked on later. Students are communicators. They are responsible managers of their own learning.

C- Some teaching process characteristics: 1- Everything is done in CLT is done with a communicative intent. 2- Students use communicative activities like role play, problem solving tasks. 3- in CLT teacher uses authentic materials. 4- activities in CLT usually are carried by students in small groups.

D- The nature of S-T/S-S interactions: She is the facilitator of the activities, but she doesn’t always herself interact with the students. Students interact a lot with their each other “pairs, small groups, whole groups, etc.” E- Students’ feelings: Students will be more motivated to study a FL in CLT. They will get the opportunity to express their individuality.

F- Language and culture viewed: Language is for communication through different aspects: forms & their meanings, knowledge of the functions language is used for. Culture is the everyday lifestyle of people who use the language. G- Areas of language emphasized: Language functions might be emphasized over forms. Students work on all four skills from beginning.

H- Students’ native language role: Wise use of Ss native language is allowed in CLT. I- Evaluation accomplished: Teacher needs to evaluate students’ accuracy and their fluency too. J- Teacher responds to students’ errors: Errors of form are tolerated during fluency activities and are seen as a natural outcome of the development of communication skills.

CLT Techniques 1- Authentic materials “radio script” 2- Scrambled sentences 3- Language games 4- Picture strip story 5- Role play