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Communicative Language Teaching Speaking Skills

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This paper discusses the use of Communicative language teaching (CLT) to teach speaking skill thoroughly. Although been widely recognized, this method is still in need of fully explored how appropriate and effective it could be in context of non-native language countries. By comparing and contrast with 5 recent journals conducted by different researchers from a variety of countries, the results affirm the appropriateness and effectiveness of CLT in boosting learners the speaking or communicative skill better than many traditional methods. Putting this method in current context, the outcome of those researches only strengthen the belief in CLT to teach the freshmen – mostly unable to speak up or raise their voice – the right way to communicate …show more content…

It was carried out on 30 Turkish university students in Istanbul by analyzing collected data in term of questionnaire and semi-structured interview. They found out that students can take advantage of communicative language teaching (CLT) only if communicative and non-communicative activities are combined. Moreover, in a research carried out by Orafi & Borg (2009), to identify whether communicative language teaching is suitable for Libyan secondary school. They observed three teachers for two weeks of teaching and interviewed to examine their classroom practices. By analyzing the data, it showed the differences between the intentions of using CLT to teach English with the reality of the manner of teachers when giving instructions …show more content…

Overall, Communicative Language Teaching method, in my view, is the best and shortest way so far to teach speaking skill effectively for students with the sole purpose of enhancing them to communicate confidently without being afraid of making mistakes in grammar or pronunciation. As for me, the proofs from many researches in CLT around the world has strengthen my teaching belief in CLT to keep on following this method in teaching my first-year students to speak. Moreover, in a modern society and connected world, communication skill seems to be in need more than the other skills which require putting in a lot more efforts. Without mentioning the hardness and difficulties faced during the process applying this method into practice, I believe it would keep evolving further more in this century to gain more

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