COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS, PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS, AND CONTEMPORARY PEDAGOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Keywords:
Keywords: Communicative Language Teaching, English Language Teaching, Communicative Competence, Task-Based Language Teaching, Learner- Centered Approach, ELT Methodology, Pragmatic Competence, Interactional FluencyAbstract
Abstract: Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has emerged as one of the
most influential and widely adopted methodological paradigms in the field of English
Language Teaching (ELT) over the past five decades. Rooted in sociolinguistic and
functional theories of language, CLT prioritizes the development of communicative
competence over mere grammatical accuracy, thereby fostering learners» ability to use
language meaningfully in real-life contexts. This paper provides a comprehensive
examination of CLT»s theoretical underpinnings, tracing its origins from Chomsky»s
distinction between linguistic competence and performance to Hymes»s
communicative competence framework and Halliday»s functional linguistics.
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