MAIN PRIORITIES AND ASSUMPTIONS OF COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Keywords:
CLT, makro skills, role plays, target language, text, task, TEFL.Abstract
Theorists agree that meaningful communication supports language learning and that classroom activities must focus on the learner’s authentic needs to communicate information and ideas. Principles of The Communicative Approach: a) Language learning is learning to communicate using the target language.
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