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Chapter 5 Communicative Language Teaching Communicative language teaching CLT: An approach to foreign or second L teaching which emphasizes that the goal of L learning is communicative competence. It has been developed particularly by British applied linguists as a reaction away from grammar-based approaches such as the audiolingual approach. Where does CLT come from? Communicative language teaching began in Britain in the 1960s as a replacement to the earlier structural method. This was partly in response to Chomskys criticisms of structural theories of language and partly based on the the