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    1.1. Core Assumptions and Principles of CLT

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    Communicative language teaching is based on theories of how people learn languages. There are 10 core principles of CLT according to Richards: 1. Language learning is facilitated through interaction and meaningful communication. 2. Classroom tasks provide opportunities for students to negotiate meaning and use language in a meaningful way. 3. Meaningful communication involves content that is relevant, purposeful, interesting, and engaging. 4. Communication involves using multiple language skills. 5. Language is learned through discovery and analysis of rules and reflection on language use. These principles are based on evolving views of how language works and is learned, informed by research in several disciplines.

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    Communicative language teaching is based on theories of how people learn languages. There are 10 core principles of CLT according to Richards: 1. Language learning is facilitated through interaction and meaningful communication. 2. Classroom tasks provide opportunities for students to negotiate meaning and use language in a meaningful way. 3. Meaningful communication involves content that is relevant, purposeful, interesting, and engaging. 4. Communication involves using multiple language skills. 5. Language is learned through discovery and analysis of rules and reflection on language use. These principles are based on evolving views of how language works and is learned, informed by research in several disciplines.

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    Communicative language teaching is based on theories of how people learn languages. There are 10 core principles of CLT according to Richards: 1. Language learning is facilitated through interaction and meaningful communication. 2. Classroom tasks provide opportunities for students to negotiate meaning and use language in a meaningful way. 3. Meaningful communication involves content that is relevant, purposeful, interesting, and engaging. 4. Communication involves using multiple language skills. 5. Language is learned through discovery and analysis of rules and reflection on language use. These principles are based on evolving views of how language works and is learned, informed by research in several disciplines.

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    1.1. Core Assumptions and Principles of CLT

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    Communicative language teaching is based on theories of how people learn languages. There are 10 core principles of CLT according to Richards: 1. Language learning is facilitated through interaction and meaningful communication. 2. Classroom tasks provide opportunities for students to negotiate meaning and use language in a meaningful way. 3. Meaningful communication involves content that is relevant, purposeful, interesting, and engaging. 4. Communication involves using multiple language skills. 5. Language is learned through discovery and analysis of rules and reflection on language use. These principles are based on evolving views of how language works and is learned, informed by research in several disciplines.

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    Core assumptions and principles of CLT


    Underpinning communicative language teaching are theories about what language
    is and how people learn languages. According to Richards (2006), ten core
    assumptions and principles of current CLT are:

    1. Second language learning is facilitated when learners are engaged in


    interaction and meaningful communication.
    2. Effective classroom learning tasks and exercises provide opportunities for
    students to negotiate meaning, expand their language resources, notice how
    language is used, and take part in meaningful interpersonal exchange.
    3. Meaningful communication results from students processing content that is
    relevant, purposeful, interesting, and engaging.
    4. Communication is a holistic process that often calls upon the use of several
    language skills or modalities.
    5. Language learning is facilitated both by activities that involve inductive or
    discovery learning of underlying rules of language use and organisation, as well
    as by those involving language analysis and reflection.
    6. Language learning is a gradual process that involves creative use of language,
    and trial and error. Although errors are a normal product of learning, the
    ultimate goal of learning is to be able to use the new language both accurately
    and fluently.
    7. Learners develop their own routes to language learning, progress at different
    rates, and have different needs and motivations for language learning.
    8. Successful language learning involves the use of effective learning and
    communication strategies.
    9. The role of the teacher in the language classroom is that of a facilitator, who
    creates a classroom climate conducive to language learning and provides
    opportunities for students to use and practise the language and to reflect on
    language use and language learning.
    10. The classroom is a community where learners learn through collaboration and
    sharing.

    But where did these assumptions come from? They are based on a progressively
    developing view of how language is constructed and the purpose of language,
    which in turn influences a view of the best way to learn a language. They are fed
    by research from several disciplines and are constantly evolving as we discover
    more about second language learning.
    The overall aim of this module is to explore these current principles in more detail
    and to understand how communicative language teaching has arrived at where it is
    today.

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