Talk:Communicative language teaching

How can we improve the page on Communicative language teaching?

Criticisms of CLT

Recent critiques of CLT include an article by Stephen Bax entitled: "The end of CLT: a Context Approach to language teaching" in which he argues that the dominance of CLT has led to the neglect of one crucial aspect of language pedagogy, namely the context in which that pedagogy takes place. Bax argues that it is time to replace CLT as the central paradigm in language teaching with a Context Approach which places context at the heart of the profession. The article argues that such a shift is taking place already and will eventually change our practice radically.

This was published alongside an interesting response by Jeremy Harmer.

References:

Bax, S (2003) The end of CLT: a context approach to language teaching ELT J 2003 57: 278-287

Harmer, J. (2003) Popular culture, methods, and context ELT J 2003 57: 288-294

picture

It might be nice to have a picture of someone teaching in a CLT classroom.

examples of CLT in the classroom

I think some examples of common activities would help