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Exploring Communicative Language Teaching: Principles and Activities for Effective Learning

Discover the principles and activities of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) to enhance your language learning experience. Learn about information-gap, jig-saw, task-completion activities, and more. Reflect on the qualities of memorable individuals and explore engaging language exercises. Dive into the background and future of CLT, evolving beyond traditional methods to cater to individual needs. Let's embark on a journey to effective language communication together!

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Exploring Communicative Language Teaching: Principles and Activities for Effective Learning

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  1. Planningwith CLT Elizabeth Ortiz 2009 Elizabeth Ortiz L. 2009

  2. CLT Principles

  3. Communicativecompetenceincludesknowing howto:

  4. Characteristics of CLTNunan (as cited in Brown, 1994)

  5. Isthereaninformation gap? • Isthere a choice? • Istherefeedback? The best way to determine if learner activities are truly communicative is to ask

  6. CLT Activities • Information-gap activities • Jig-saw activities • Task-completion activities (puzzles, games, map reading, etc.) • Information-gathering activities (surveys, interviews, searches) • Opinion-sharing activities (values, opinions, beliefs) • Information-transfer activities (info presented in one form and represent it in a different form) • Reasoning-gap activities (inference, practical reasoning, etc.) • Role-plays (roles, improvise scenes)

  7. CLT Checklist

  8. Qualities of thisperson Why I won`tforgetthisperson The Person I will Never Forget Name of thatspecialperson How I metthisperson Things I saidorwanttosaytothatperson He/she likes/dislikes… He/she looks like…

  9. Name Round • Close your eyes and think what you were like at the age of 12. e.g. “I am Elizabeth, and when I was 12 I wanted to be a doctor”. • Listen and recall from your fellow students have said. • Write the profession as a heading. Bellow write: advantages, disadvantages, desirable qualities.

  10. Doctor

  11. What do they have in common?

  12. Picture Dictation There is an island in the middle of the lake. In the middle of the island there´s a house with a big door and four windows on the ground floor, and six windows on the first floor. There is a lot of big trees to the left of the house. On the lake, to the right of the island, there´s a boat with two men in it. One of them is fishing.

  13. The Background and Future of CLT

  14. Beyond Approaches and Methods… As the teacher gains experience and knowledge, he/she will develop an individual approach or personal method of teaching, one that draws on an stablished approach or method but that also uniquely reflects the teacher`s individual beliefs, values, principles, and experience, and overal…

  15. … based on their needs!!!

  16. Thank You!!! eortiz@copol.edu.ec

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