Communicative Curriculum Design for the 21st Century
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This piece looks at Communicative Language Teaching, or CLT, for teaching EFL. The author discusses the history, the focus, and the future of CLT. The article describes how to shape a communicative curriculum and the five components that it is composed of: language arts, language for a purpose, personal English use, theater arts, and beyond the classroom. The article emphasizes the variation of CLT within each classroom.
Author:
Sandra J. Savignon
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English Teaching Forum 2002 (Volume 40, Number 1)
This issue is the first in a series celebrating ET Forum's 40th anniversary. Article topics include communicative curriculum design, problem solving, self-assessment for evaluation, drama, and more.