COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING’ AND ITS RELEVANCE TO THE LIBYAN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING CONTEXT

Authors

  • Khalil S.M. Jahbel Universitas Negeri Malang Alzytouna University Tarhouna Libya

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24127/pj.v6i1.762

Keywords:

CLT, Historical, Approach, Libyan

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the relevance of the communicative language teaching (CLT) to the teaching English  in Libyan context.  Moreover, it was intended to highlight the historical perspective, features and principles of CLT, followed by an illustration and discussion of the description of the specific classroom context. Finally, after discussing all the elements that are pertaining to this approach, it concluded that CLT seems to be an appropriate approach that may remain on top of a variety –list of approaches, since it focuses on all the language aspects such as functional and grammatical elements and also its tasks imply working with real life situations.

 

Author Biography

Khalil S.M. Jahbel, Universitas Negeri Malang Alzytouna University Tarhouna Libya

Khalil Jahbel is an assistant lecturer of English language. Teaching English to speakers of other languages at the English department in the college of languages Alzytouna University-Tarhouna Libya. He graduated from University of Sunderland UK, with an MA in TESOL in 2011. His research interests include Language Learning and Teaching. Corresponding author: [email protected]

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Published

2017-05-11

How to Cite

Jahbel, K. S. (2017). COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING’ AND ITS RELEVANCE TO THE LIBYAN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING CONTEXT. Premise: Journal of English Education and Applied Linguistics, 6(1), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.24127/pj.v6i1.762

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2017): Premise Journal: e-ISSN:2442-482x, p-ISSN:2089-3345

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