The Communicative Approach Learning

The goal is to enable students to communicate in the target language, the students need knowledge of the linguistic forms, meanings, and function. Communication is a process; knowledge of the forms of language is insufficient.The teacher facilitates communication in the classroom. CLT is that almost everything that is done is done with a communicative intent. Students use language in real communication. Students interact a great deal with one another. One of the basic assumptions of CLT is that by learning to communicate students will be more motivated to study a foreign language since they will feel they are learning to do something useful with the language. Language is for communication. Linguistic competence, the knowledge of forms and their meanings, is just one part of communicative competence. Language functions might be emphasized over forms. The students' native language is permitted in CLT, to give the instruction in assigning homework.A teacher evaluates not only students' accuracy, but also their fluency. The teacher may note the errors during fluency activities and return to them later with an accuracy-based activity.