Communicative tasks emphasize on activities which facilitate the learners to achieve the target, i.e. to communicate in English. Communicative activity is to
provide communication.
d. Teacher Roles
According to Breen and Candlin as cited in Richards and Rogers 2001: 167, teacher assumed to have several roles in CLT. The roles of the teacher are
to: 1
Facilitate the communication process between all participants in the classroom, and between the participants and the activities and texts
2 Act as an independent participant within learning-teaching group
a Organizer of resources and resources themselves
b Guide within the classroom procedures and activities
c Researcher and learner
3 Determine and respond to learner language needs need analyst
4 Exemplify an effective communicator through paraphrase, confirmation, and
feedback counselor 5
Manage the group process: less teacher-centered but more student-centered management skills.
e. Learner Roles
In this approach, the learners are acquired to be adaptable, creative, inventive, and independent. Breen and Candlin as cited in Richards and Rogers
2001: 166 describe the learner’s role within CLT in the following terms:
The role of learner as negotiator – between the self, the learning process, and the object of learning – emerges from and interacts with
the role of joint negotiator within the group undertakes. The implication for the learner is that he should contribute as much as he
gains, and thereby learn in an interdependent way.
From this role, students are expected to interact primarily with each other rather than with the teacher, and correction of errors may be absent or infrequent
and learners learn to see that failed communication is a joint responsibility and not the fault of speaker or listener.
f. Types of Learning and Teaching Activities in CLT
Littlewood 1981: 20-21, in his book, he distinguished the communicative activities in CLT. There are two main categories:
1 Functional communication activities
Teacher can design the communicative activities in the classroom which emphasize the functional aspect of communication. The main purpose of the
activity is that learner should use the language they know in order to get meanings across as effectively as possible. Because of this emphasize on being functionally
effective, activities of this type formulates functional communication activities. 2
Social Interaction Activities One of the important aspects of communication skill is the ability to take
account of the social meaning as well as the functional meaning of different language forms Littlewood: 1981: 20. Expectantly, the competent speakers
should use language not only functionally effective, but also appropriate to the social situation they are in. Learners must still aim to convey meanings
effectively, but must also pay greater attention to the social context in which the interaction takes place. Then, role-playing and simulation become important
techniques for creating social situation and relationships. Activities of this type are called social interaction activities.
3. Writing
