THE USE OF COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING
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Key words: Communicative language teaching (CLT), English classroom, communicative skills, interactive activities, target language.Abstract
Abstract. This article deals with the importance of communicative language teaching for students who are learning English language as the second language. In this article, the origin of this teaching method is outlined and a detailed definition for this approach is provided to explain its use. Also, this paper highlights the sequence of the tasks that could be employed in an English classroom and showcases its main benefits for improving language skills. To improve the reliability of this article, some experiment results are analyzed and practical examples are given.
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