COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING APPROACH IN TEACHING SPEAKING SKILL TO B1 LEVEL LEARNERS
Keywords:
Communicative method, CLT, speaking skill, interaction, communicateAbstract
English is one of the most spoken languages in the world. For this reason, enhancing the Speaking skill plays a vital role in communicating among people whose native language is not English. Most of the time, new language learners face difficulties in expressing their thoughts by speaking as they are afraid to make intonation mistakes or mispronounce a word or phrase. The communicative language teaching (CLT) helps the learners to develop their speaking skill effectively and use the language in real-life situations. It is focused on the interaction among students that produce speech or conversation for most of the classroom time using the target language. It develops speaking through different techniques which encourages students’ participation, promotes confidence and prepares students for real life communications. For this study, it was interesting to investigate specific speaking techniques such as interviews, strip stories, and role-plays to boost students speaking troubles. This article aims to apply the Communicative Language Teaching approach to develop Speaking skills in B1 level learners.
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