Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) aims to develop students' communicative competence through authentic language use rather than just mastering linguistic structures. Key principles of CLT include introducing authentic materials, tolerating errors, and focusing on meaning over form, while the teacher acts as a facilitator. CLT techniques include using role plays, debates, games, songs and multimedia to provide opportunities for cooperative student interaction and exchange of opinions in various social contexts.

1. Communicative
Language
Teaching
Taken from Larsen Freeman chapter 9

2. Problem: communication outside
the classroom
● More than mastering the linguistic structures
was necessary.
● It is also necessary to perform certain
functions.
● Communicative competence is the aim of
language teaching.

3. Principles
● Authentic language should be introduced.
● Being able to figure out the speaker's or writer's intentions is part of being
communicatively competent.
● Work at the suprasentencial level.
● Opportunities to share opinions.+
● Errors are tolerated.
● Cooperative relations among students.
● Social context is essential
● Teacher acts as a facilitator.
● The grammar and vocabulary the students learn follow from the function,
situational context and the role of the interlocutors.
● Students are coached on strategies.

4. Techniques and Materials
● Authentic materials.
● Scrambled sentences.
● Language games.
● Picture strip story.
● Role play.
● Questions
● Debate

5. Techniques and Materials
● Picture analysis.
● Movie analysis.
● Song lyrics.
● ICT-based projects: working with blogs,
wikis, online platforms: voicethread, glogster,
edmodo, educreations, among others.