Talk:Communicative language teaching
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[edit] Critiques of CLT
It's great to have citation, but the first paragraph is dramatically uninformative. What do I care if a sequence of people attacked and defended CLT if I haven't the faintest clue what it is they said? 76.6.173.2 13:05, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
How can we improve the page on Communicative language teaching?
I'm not sure 'context' and 'notion' are synonymous in the functional-notional tradition, as the article suggests. Something like 'shopping' was usually called a 'situation', not a 'notion'. 'Notion' was used to describe semantic domains, rather than places in the real world - for example 'weight', 'price', 'colour', 'texture'.
== 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
--> I think this should be added to the article!
thanks!
What exactly is the "interesting response" by Harmer? Doesn't CLT address context in the classroom? What is this radical change that is not specified? Absent these answers, I don't believe this is a substantive criticism. Roehl Sybing 17:40, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
A further search for this article reveals that the above summary is taken directly from the abstract of the article. Nothing particularly original here. Roehl Sybing 17:49, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] picture
It might be nice to have a picture of someone teaching in a CLT classroom.
[edit] examples of CLT in the classroom
I think some examples of common activities would help
What kind of examples, lesson plans, samples of material or clearer description of how certain activities go?Ikwilhetweten 22:51, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] References
Of many entries in the reference list it is not clear to which part of the article they belong. I think this should be corrected.Ikwilhetweten 00:33, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
