Professor Jack C. Richards - Communicative language teaching

Part 1 of 6. Professor Jack C. Richards talks about 'Communicative language teaching', sponsored by Cambridge University Press.
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[HingYok]

Speaking from a student's perspective here: CLT is very beneficial for me personally when I was learning English and French. It also helps shy students to speak up. It also made the classes more fun because you get to listen to other people's stories and really use the language in class. The language then becomes meaningful because instead of studying it as a subject, you are actually using it to make communication happen. My favorite activity is sharing what you have done over the past few days - it kind of forces you to speak up and think in the language, and makes you think about or ask how to express yourself in it.

[williamromano]

Excellent video. Dr. Richards cleary enunciate how students engage through CLT in class fostering speaking and listening skills.

[mohamedherouini]

Brief and concise explanation of CLT. I really appreciated it.Thank you sir

[TheRealSimeon]

Thank you, Professor! This video explained the work well.

[saharalhumaid]

Well explained and very helpful, thank you professor 👍🏻

[jakehwr]

Very simple and organized explanation. This video helped me a lot in my assignment :D

[colinnicholson]

He’s reading off a Teleprompter, you can see the reflection in his glasses.

Also I wish it wasn’t so sleep 😴 inducing! He’s teaching us about communicative teaching, yet teaching us in a way that is very dry and hard to force your self to remember anything he’s said! I had to make notes about his video, so I wouldn’t immediately forget it all!

[Ahmed.Hamza.Salman]

Hello doctor ...
I'm a teacher of English from Iraq and the communicative approach is supposed to be followed in here but the thing is, the final exams are all written tests, and I think that get pupils to use this method in classroom will give them some ability in communicating orally but then I don't want them to fail in the written exams. Any suggestions? Thanks

[moisesdasilva]

Interesting enough but I wonder why, there is never any mention of when the webinar was produced in case we should report its source.

[jhanasandigan]

Please make more videos about Linguistics, Professor ☺️

[andresgiomedina]

Really well presented with enough examplification... thank you a lot.

[wanyun]

Thank you sir. May I know what are the similarities between Communicative Language Teaching and Action-oriented Approach?

[rickivanov]

I have to sit an exam on CLT and I am really confused. It's only theory and it's hard for me to remember it all. Could someone give actual examples of this, please? I am expected to write in detail about the principles of CLT. Thank you!

[aselkoch]

How a language must be taught to be a communicative language activity?

[kbrfcto]

Please can you help me I have researching about teaching Methods, the question is.
Many language teaching theorists advocate the concept of “Teaching Methods, ” while others criticize it. Discuss this concept in depth.

[moalemezaban]

Thank you professor, for your really informative video

[abderrahimfachtal]

Helpful... How about syllabus designing within CLT?

[Chapalia]

Fantastic podcast. Thank you very much.

[Gazto]

What about the patience approach? You sit there and wait for the students to talk meaninfully about a specific topic and help them complete their sentences, aiding them with written sentences they can later consult again, drawings, projector images, etc. For a beginner, a sentence might take 5 minutes to finish.

[exaverymwandabale]

Thanks Professor for this educative video