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Communicative language teaching

Communicative language teaching (CLT), or the communicative approach (CA), is an approach to language teaching that emphasizes interaction as both the means and the ultimate goal of study. Within CLT, the goal is the ability to communicate in the target language. This is in contrast to previous views in which grammatical competence was commonly given top…

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Communicative language teaching

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