Communicative language teaching

What is communicative language teaching? This post takes a deep dive into the history and principles behind CLT, with examples and activities for the ordinary language classroom. via @eealvarado

There are often buzz words that come up in education. For the past ten years or so we have been talking about, exploring, redefining and doing our best to implement communicative language teaching. If you were asked to define what this is exactly, what would you say? It's a methodology that we tend to understand…

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Let's do English ESL discussion starters, speaking cards. A set of cards to practice the structure there is/there are in questions and short answers for your s…

' The role of grammar is perhaps one of the most controversial issues in language teaching (Richards and Renandya, 2002, p.145). From the past to the present, there have been so many changes in methodologists' views on which grammar items should be taught and how to teach them. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Man C. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Traditional Approach In the past, in a traditional…

English Speaking Phrases Let’s Communicate Phrases For Invitations Let me check my calendar. Do you wanna see a movie? Would you like to join me for dinner? How about a game of football on Monday? Would you like to have breakfast with me tomorrow? Would you like to come to the theater with me tonight? Will you join me for tea? I’ve got two tickets for a cinema on Saturday. Would you like to come? Would you like to have dinner with me tonight? How about coming to the picnic at the football…

Have you ever wondered how we acquire language? Do you know what language acquisition means? Do you know the difference between first language acquisition and second language acquisition? In this post we talk about the 5 stages of Second language acquisition: 1. Silent or receptive phase 2. Early production 3. Speech emergence or production 4. Intermediate fluency5. Continued language development or fluency.

This is an activity to present some of the WH Questions in a simple recognizable way. You can use them as flashcards, show them and make your students create a sentence with that question word.

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