The objective of Communicative Language Teaching The Characteristics of Communicative Language Teaching
3. Consider from teaching structure point of view, is it alright to teach the spoken
language as it were exactly like the written language but with a few “spoken expression” thrown in?
4. Is it appropriate to teach the same structures to all foreign language learners, no
matter what their age are or their institutions in learning the spoken language? 5.
Are those structures described in standard grammars, the structure which our learners should be expected to produce when they speak English?
6. How is it possible to give learners any short of meaningful practice in producing
spoken language? Brown and Yule, 1983: 3
The Process of Speaking
Rivers 1968: 158 states that learning a foreign language is more than learning a description of it. Instead the process of speaking and listening is involved.
Banathy 1976: 24 states that the objective of the speaking a foreign language is at the end of the course the learners will be able to speak the target
language in communicative events by speaking to native speaker of the language or to a person who has a better command of the language than heshe has. The learner
of a target language will be trained in such a way so that he will be able to produce communication with the native or persons with better command than heshe has.
Teaching Speaking
Teaching speaking skill cannot be separated from the idea of teaching communicative ability. Communicative ability is the production of specifies ability
to communicate in target language Paulston and Bruder, 1976: 56. Therefore, the teaching points are simply to instruct the learners how to get meaning across, to be
able to communicate some referential meaning in the target language. Compared with teaching of any language skills, teaching speaking is more demanding on the
teacher Rivers, 1986: 160. It means that the teacher plays in important role in giving the learners many opportunities to practice the speaking skill.