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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)"”.
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The use of communicative language teaching (CLT): Turkish EFL teachers' perceived difficulties in implementing CLT in Turkey
CLT has been widely explored and studied by many researchers in the field of English language teaching. There have been many studies conducted on the use of CLT in EFL settings. However, there are only few studies in number that specifically deal with CLT and its implementation in the Turkish …
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AN APPLICATION OF THE COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING (CLT) APPROACH FOR ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (EFL) LEARNERS IN THE ARAB CONTEXT
… countries of the Arab region have introduced the communicative language teaching (CLT) approach as a way to improve learners English fluency. However, Arab EFL teachers face many challenges in implementing this approach. This study was conducted to provide a possible sample of a CLT unit plan to …
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An action research study of English teaching in grade seven at Bamrung Wittaya School, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
… project which was conducted to improve students’ language learning performance and also my teaching practice by implementing the student-centred (Communicative Language Teaching: CLT) approach which is well known among foreign language teachers as a practical teaching approach to create the …
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Teachers' perceptions of communicative language teaching use in Brazil
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has been extensively discussed and researched. However little appears in the literature about CLT use in EFL environments, such as Brazil. Few studies explore CLT adaptation in EFL environments, and if they do, such studies are mostly in Asian countries (Li, …
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Communicative Language Teaching in Current Chinese Colleges and Universities.
<p>Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has been prioritized as the key instructional approach in colleges since the Chinese Ministry of Education issued a revised syllabus in 1999 that underlines college EFL students' communicative competence. The issuance of the syllabus was followed by a series …
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Creating a Curriculum for Preschool Educators in Asia: How to Teach Kindergarteners Speaking and Listening Skills in English through Games
… teachers prefer to pay more attention to teaching English reading and writing skills, while ignoring the teaching and practices of English listening and speaking (Wang, 2016). Most 3-6 age children do not have the attention span of adults (Garba, Yusuf, & Busthami, 2015), and more …
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Educating Saudi Women through Communicative Language Teaching: A Bi-literacy Narrative and An Autoethnography of a Saudi English Teacher
… who earned the undergraduate degree in English Language at King Abdulazziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The author offers a brief literacy narrative of her experience learning Arabic in girls’ schools on a military base in Tabuk in northern Saudi Arabia and at the university. Through …
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Teaching Reduced Forms: A Curriculum Guide for Junior High English Language Teachers Using Digital Technology Based Activities and Classroom Games
<p>Japanese English language students often struggle with listening comprehension when communicating with native English speakers due to the use of reduced forms. Native speakers use contractions, reductions, elisions, and linking in casual speech which sounds unfamiliar to students who have not …
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Attitudes Toward Communicative Language Teaching: The Case of EFL Teachers in Iquique, Chile
… to learn the attitudes that English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers working in public, subsidized and private high schools from Iquique, Chile, have toward Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). Fifty-eight high school EFL teachers from three types of schools in Iquique participated in a …
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Effects of the communicative language teaching approach on the English learning motivation and English proficiency of non-English majors in a technological and vocational university in Northern Taiwan
… of this study was to explore the effects of the communicative language teaching (CLT) approach on learner motivation and English proficiency. I was challenged to examine the feasibility of a Western-based pedagogy administered in a country where traditional grammar-based instruction has dominated …
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Innovative Techniques for Inspiring EFL Students' Enthusiasm and Participating in English Classroom Activities
… Taiwan Ministry of Education (MOE) is promoting communicative language teaching (CLT) and encouraging learners to develop and increased desire to improve their language skills. However, many Taiwanese English as Foreign Language (EFL) teachers still focus on memorization and the grammar …
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Teaching the new English curriculum in a Chinese school : An ethnographic study.
… (NEC) for high schools. The NEC promotes communicative language teaching (CLT), particularly task based language teaching (TBLT). This thesis reports an ethnographic study exploring the experience of five Chinese teachers of English in their implementation of the NEC. The researcher worked …
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Teaching EFL/ESL College-level Learners through Current Global Topics: Integrated Lessons for EFL/ESL Teachers
… to have sufficient preparation to build English communicative competence and cultural awareness necessary to cope with various situations in which they need to communicate meaningfully and purposefully as effective English users.</p> <p>The purpose of this project, which is grounded in …
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Attitudes of Teachers of Arabic as a Foreign Language toward Methods of Foreign Language Teaching
… the attitude of teachers of Arabic as a foreign language toward some of the most well known teaching methods. For this reason the following eight methods were selected: (1) the Grammar-Translation Method (GTM), (2) the Direct Method (DM), (3) the Audio-Lingual Method (ALM), (4) Total Physical …
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A study into the teaching and learning of English speaking skills at Al Jabal Al Gharbi University from the teachers’ and students’ perspectives
case study provides insight into the teaching and learning of English speaking skills at the Libyan Al Jabal Al Gharbi University as a research context, investigating the teachers’ and students’ perceptions in terms of the level of adoption of the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach in …
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Teaching in hagwons in South Korea: a novice English teacher’s autoethnography
… growth as a teacher and her interest in applying Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) to educate young South Korean children ages 8-13. It is a collection of 13 written artifacts collected during the master’s program at Eastern Washington University as well as concurrent and retrospective journal …
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‘Different Courses, Different Outcomes?’ A comparative study of Communicative Competence in English Language learners following ‘Academic’ and ‘International Understanding’ courses at High Schools in Japan
… In Japan, where the traditional focus of English teaching has been on knowledge of a foreign language as a system, increasing emphasis is now being placed on the ability to communicate internationally. Achieving competence in a foreign language may be the result of many factors including teaching …
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An Intervention to Increase Students' Engagement and Achievement in College English Classes in China using the MUSIC Model of Motivation
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is regarded as an effective approach to teaching foreign languages because it focuses on students' engagement and communicative competence. In the realm of educational psychology, researchers have identified many teaching strategies that can have positive …
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Meaning negotiation through task-based synchronous computer-mediated-communication (SCMC) in EFL learning in China – A case study
There has been a strong advocacy of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in China since the 1980s. One underlying assumption behind this approach is that acquisition is a process which depends on conversational interaction (Wagner-Gough & Hatch, 1975). A specific kind of interaction, meaning …
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Can I teach these students? A case study of Vietnamese teachers’ self-efficacy in relation to teaching English as a foreign language
… at factors that influenced the self-efficacy in teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) of a group of university teachers in Vietnam. Previous studies yielded contradictory results regarding the sources of self-efficacy information. Very little empirical research on the potential role of …
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