The Background to CLT

Specific English

Educational Roles

Nurses

Doctors

Mechanist

Biologist

Differents language

Grammar

Function

Vocabulary choice

Planing Language Course

Decisions have to made about the course

Decision about vocabulary- grammar

Advanced levels- skills- microskills

Decisions about issues belong the field of syllabus design or course design

The best methodology

Language teaching

Three phrases

1. Traditional approaches (up to the late 1960s)

2. Classic communicative language teaching (1970s to 1990s)

3. Current communicative language teaching (late 1990s to the present)

Rethinking

Approaches to syllabus design and methodologies

Traditional approaches

Teaching gave priority of grammatical competence

Students are given examples of sentences-grammar

Changes

Syllabus

Design

50 years changed

Methodologies

Techniques

Memorization of dialogs

Questions

Answer practise

Substitution drills

Speaking

Writing practise

P-P-P

Presentation

The new grammar structure is presented

Practise

Students practise using the new structure

Production

Students practice using the new structure in different contexts

CCLT 1970s-1990s

Communicative competence was developed within the discipline of the linguistics

Audiolingualism

Situational language teaching

Traditional vocabulary and grammar

Syllabuses and teaching methods

Students

Hear a model dialog

Key structure

Focus of the lesson

Teachers

Pay attention to the pronunciation

Intonation

Fluency

Refer

Textbook

Follow up reading

Subtopic

Reading

Vocabulary