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Communicative Language Teaching: State of the Art
Author(s) -
SAVIG SANDRA J.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
tesol quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.737
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1545-7249
pISSN - 0039-8322
DOI - 10.2307/3587463
Subject(s) - communicative language teaching , linguistics , state (computer science) , language education , sociology , psychology , computer science , philosophy , programming language
This paper looks briefly at the beginnings of what has come to be known as communicative language teaching (CLT), then discusses current issues and promising avenues of inquiry. The perspective is international. CLT is seen to be not a British, European, or U.S. phenomenon, but rather an international effort to respond to the needs of present‐day language learners in many different contexts of learning.