Quotes from an article.

The Advantages of Communicative Language Teaching
Rebecca Belchamber (Melbourne, Australia)

• The more I read on the topic, the more I defended the continued suitability of CLT for some of these diverse learner groups. It really does benefit the students in a variety of ways.
• Focus on accuracy versus fluency not often considered in CLT; grammatical versus communicative competence. Canale and Swain’s model of communicative competence: grammatical, sociolinguistic discourse and strategic.
• Are our students aiming to learn or acquire English?
• Or follow Halliday’s lead and drop the distinction between learning and acquisition, and refer to language mastery instead how to motivate students: engaging students but also includes confidence building.
• To lower affective filter and build confidence, allow pair-checking of answers before open-class checking occurs, and/or ask students to discuss a topic in small groups before there is any expectation that they speak in front of the whole class
• For a few students, just uttering a word or a phrase can be an achievement.