Dolphin English

CLT (Communicative Language Teaching) is based on the idea that in order to improve students’ communication skills, most of the interaction that teachers need to provide for their students should be classroom tasks that require and promote meaningful communication.

Students are much more likely to find these forms of interaction motivating and engaging, compared with listening to the teacher talk about various topics for extended periods. In order for the interactions to be effective, we need to ensure that successfully completing a task depends on meaningful communication, as opposed to parroting or simple repetition.

Within our materials, each task is designed so that there is a real purpose for an interaction, mirroring communicative interactions in the real world. This real purpose might involve a student communicating something about their own life which other students don’t know, such as information about their family, or their own opinions on a subject. Communicative Language Teaching prepares students for communicative demands outside the classroom using techniques that develop communication skills, instead of simply delivering information to the students about linguistics.