Communicative Language Teaching

“In this approach, students ask their classmates when their birthdays are and write the answers down. They try to find a different child for each month of the year.” What is this language teaching approach?

• Reading Approach

• Total Physical Response

• Presentation Practice Production

• Communicative Language Teaching

Which one is NOT the advantage of CLT?

• Students will be more motivated by learning to communicate.

• There's an interactive relationship between the students and the teacher.

• It's great for intermediate and advanced learners, but for beginners some controlled practice is needed.

• Students will learn to communicate effectively. 

What is a good example of an activity within the CLT method?

• Dialogue sessions

• Role play

• Anything structured around the interest and ages of the students

• All of the above

What is the teacher's role in Communicative Language Teaching?

• advisor

• facilitator

• co-communicator

• All of the above

What is Communicative Language Teaching based on?

• The idea that learning language successfully comes through having to communicate real meaning.

• The idea that learning language comes from rote memorization.

• The idea that learning comes from reading and writing literature in the mother language.

• The idea that learning langauge comes from learning linguistic structure.

What is the principle of CLT?

• CLT is a teacher-centered method. 

• CLT does not focus on grammar or fluency.

• CLT is a learner-centered method. 

• Students' native langauge is not permitted in CLT.

These are the principles of CLT, EXCEPT for...

• Focused on accuracy over fluency

• Develop communicative competence

• Learner-centered attitude

• Meaningful communication  

Errors, in Communicative Language Teaching Method, are seen as

____________. (103台北教甄)

• a natural outcome of language learning 

• something that must be corrected immediately 

• bad habit formation 

• something that can be ignored entirely

Which of the following might NOT be emphasized in Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)? (111新北教甄)

• Using language to communicate in real-life situations.

• Identifying what is appropriate if given the context.

• Identifying and memorizing new sounds.

• Emphasizing the social use of language in the learning process.

Which one is NOT true about CLT?

• The target language is exclusively used to maintain a cultural island in the classroom.

• Grammar is inductively taught where learners are encouraged to make their own generalization about grammar rules.

• The emphasis is on the mastery of language forms rather than the process of communication.

• Not only accuracy, but also fluency is evaluated by the teacher.