Flashcards: CLT

THE HISTORY OF CLT

Language teaching has seen many changes in ideas about syllabusdesign and methodology in the last 50 years, and CLT prompted a rethinkingof approaches to syllabus design and methodology. We may conveniently grouptrends in language teaching in the last 50 years into three phases

PHASE 1: TRADITIONAL APPROACHES (UP TO THE LATE 1960S)

Traditional approaches to language teaching gave priorityto grammatical competence as the basis of language proficiency.Methodologies based on these assumptions include Audiolingualism(in North America) (also known as the Aural-Oral Method), and theStructural-Situational Approach in the United Kingdom (also known asSituational Language Teaching).