COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH TO LANGUAGE TEACHING
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) started developing in Great Britain in the
1960s, when British applied linguists began to question the assumptions underscoring
Situational Language Teaching. Noam Chomsky was among the first ones to demonstrate
that standard s. A functional and communicative definition of language could actually help develop
communicative syllabi for language teaching. A broader sociocultural context, which included
participants, their behaviour and beliefs, objects of linguistic discussion and a word choice, should also
be taken into consideration while teaching any language. Theorists also stressed the importance of
communicative approach to language teaching, particularly the communicative acts underlying the
ability to use language for different purposes and the relationship between linguistic systems and
their communicative values in texts and discourse .Structural theories of language were incapable of
accounting for the creativity and uniqueness of individual sentences. Therefore, there was a shift from
the insistence on the mere mastery of grammatical structures to the emphasis on communicative
proficiency.