What is Communicative Language Teaching?

In this episode I take on the topic of communicative language teaching (CLT).  What is it exactly and how do we teach communicatively? [sign up for Talking Points]

Topics:

• CLT is an approach and not a method.
• Difference between an approach and a method?
•  Bill VanPatten's description of  CLT.
• The role of input.
• The role of output.
• The communicative classroom:
  • student-centered
  • students create with language
  • focus is communicating messages

What does this look like in the classroom?

• Performance
• Assessment

What does the teacher do in the communicative language classroom?

**Blog post on the communicative language teaching mindset shift.
**Download pdf with all of these details on communicative language teaching

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