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Communicative Curriculum Design for the 21st Century

Within the last quarter century, communicative language teaching (CLT) has been put forth around the world as the new and innovative way to teach English as a second or foreign language.

It provide a framework for elaborating program goals in terms of functional competence

This

implies global, qualitative evaluation of learner achievement

as opposed to quantitative assessment of discrete linguistic

features.

The communicative curriculum is

potentially composed of five components.

3. My Language is Me: Personal English

Language Use.

2. Language for a Purpose.

5. Beyond the Classroom.

1. Language Arts.

4. You Be…, I’ll Be…Theater Arts.

The essence of CLT is the engagement of learners in

communication to allow them to develop their communicative

competence. Terms sometimes used to refer to features

of CLT include process-oriented, task-based, and

inductive or discovery-oriented.