Keywords: communication, one’s developing communicative competence, communicative language teaching,
competence, to the field of methodology, as memorization of dialogs and drills, and toward the use of pair work
activities, role plays, group work activities and project work.
Perhaps the majority of language teachers today, when asked to identify the methodology they employ in
their classrooms, mention “communicative” as the methodology of choice. However, when pressed to give a
detailed account of what they mean by “communicative,” explanations vary widely. Does communicative
language teaching, or CLT, mean teaching conversation, an absence of grammar in a course, or an emphasis
on open-ended discussion activities as the main features of a course? What do you understand by
communicative language teaching?
