Week 3 Reflection

Week 3 Reflection- Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is generally known as an approach rather than a method as CLT has no specific method. It has been further refined into few components namely, a) linguistic competence b) discourse competence c) pragmatic competence d) strategic competence. CLT stressed on the comprehension and message production rather than teaching the accuracy of language form.

After I go through the articles of CLT, I had understands what CLT was all about and what is the main roles in education. In a communicative-based classroom, the activities are designed to promote language production that is creative, unpredictable and purposeful. However, in a traditional classroom, the focus is only on mastering linguistic items.

The knowledge which I extract from the principles of CLT provides me with lots of important information which will then apply in teaching methodology. For example, the principle of adopting a learner-centered attitude states that the teacher should regard students as their partner. As a pre-service teacher, that kind of knowledge will helps in order to know when and where a teacher should change their roles in language teaching as we are new in that field.