Synthesis of Communicative Language Teaching.

 

Communicative Language Teaching.

Communicative Language Teaching became increasingly in the 1970´s. The most obvious characteristic of CLT is that almost everything that is done is done with a communicative intent.

 It has served as major source of influence on language teaching practice around the world. CLT can be understood as all the goals of language teaching, because is about of how learners learn a language. In one hand, it is important to make mention about a concept which is involve in the CLT and is the Communicative Competence which is defined in terms of the expression, and negotiation of meaning which may be a lofty goal, but this view of language behavior looks for precision and it does not provide a universal scale for assessment of individual learners, and looks to Second Language Acquisition, that term using into some discussions just to use the foreign language learning and students should be able to achieve the language. In the other hand, it is important to make a comparison with the grammatical competence which is the knowledge that we have to create or construct our own ability to produce sentences in a language.

The functions on CLT are based on the learner needs, the motivation provided by the teacher; and the autonomy, because they as students have the most important responsibility to construct their own knowledge; other is what are the good habits that students have to produce correct sentences and also they can learn from their own mistakes. Taking into account that learners have to interact with others to have more fluency, where students will develop the negotiation of meaning using communication strategies, and creating correct examples of the language use; compressibility and effort, learners have to express or shared their own experiences to others. Talking about the teacher`s role, is the person who act just like a facilitator in all the community in the classroom and he/she gives communication processes to follow. Another is that the teacher has to act as an independent, counselor, and needs analyst and group process manager. Then the student`s role, as negotiator, between the self, the learning process and the object of learning, by this way students a really active into the classroom.

CLT is focus on the four skills not just in face-to-face oral communication. Other principles inside of the CLT are reading and writing, that’s why teacher need to have portfolio assessment which include some information from the students and this an evidence of the student´s develop. This kind of collection may include the following aspects:

·         Essay writing.

·         Class presentations.

·         Poems.

·         Reports.

·         Stories.

·         Videotapes.

·         Similar projects.

 As we can see, the CLT is really important to our own life, because we can adapt some main points about the approach just to apply them into the real world, and by this way achieve all the objectives proposed by ourselves.