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What is Communicative language teaching and what factors led to its emergence in (ELT)

Introduction This paper tries to explore the fundamental perspective of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in second and foreign language teaching. CLT is well-known as an approach rather than method. CLT has been widely dominated language teaching for almost two decades. It is also claimed, for some scholars, as communicative approach or communicative competence. Historically, CLT appears as a tandem of audio lingual method and traditional method. It has been argued that CLT is best approach in teaching and learning because it promotes learner to use language as a means of communication. However others may blame CLT approach. The problem occurs when the students can only understand structure of one language without being able to use it in real condition Therefore this paper is aimed at discussing the literature review on the definition and background of CLT, the importance of CLT, some crucial factors in its emergence in foreign language teaching and its implication to la...