Learner Role in CLT: Practices in the Higher Secondary Classrooms (2024)

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What is the role of the learner in CLT? ›

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is a learner-centered approach for language teaching and learning. In the CLT context, learner's role changes from that of a passive receiver to an active participant engaging in diverse classroom activities that promote communicative competence.

Students take leadership in classroom, present their work, and facilitate groups. Students take ownership of their reading, writing, and learning to develop, test, and refine their thinking. Students engage in talk that is accountable to the text or task, the learning community, and standards of reasoning.

According to Breen and Candlin (1980) cited in Richards and Rodgers (1986), a teacher is facilitator of the communication process, needs analyst, counsellor, and process manger. The CLT teacher assumes a responsibility for determining and responding to learner language needs.

The role of the learner in those classrooms is to passively listen and take notes so they can memorize and reproduce the information on exams. This “sage on the stage” model is effective in presenting large amounts of information.

Maryellen Weimer, the five characteristics of learner-centered teaching are: 1) directly engaging students in the hard, messy work of learning; 2) providing explicit skill instruction; 3) encouraging students to reflect on what they are learning and how they are learning it; 4) motivating students by giving them some ...

Learner centered instructional strategies include cooperative learning, peer review, debating a topic, and role-play scenarios. Learner-centered instruction encourages collaboration and communication in the classroom.

Learners. Are active participants in their own learning. Make decisions about what and how they will learn. Construct new knowledge and skills by building on current knowledge and skills.

The principal achievement goal of Communicative Language Teaching is to enable students to communicate knowledge and opinions surrounding a topic in the target language (English). Remember this: The target language is the language learners are studying (i.e. English).

We discussed the key elements of CLT, as identified by David Nunan, which emphasize interaction, authentic texts, learner-centeredness, personal experiences, and a connection between classroom learning and language activation outside the classroom.

The goal of CLT is to communicate, and the means by which the student achieves that goal is to communicate. The Audio-lingual method was originated by the military personnel, and the student must do a lot of repetition with the goal of memorizing parts of the language.

What are three responsibilities you have as a learner? ›

Students have the responsibility to:

Be in school and in class on time. Show respect to other persons and to school property and the property or others. Contribute to a safe and orderly school environment that is conducive to learning. Strive and work to the best of their ability.

A meticulous learner pays attention to detail and can identify patterns, connections, and trends in the information they are gaining. They can effectively analyze and evaluate the information they receive, which helps them to retain it better. Being meticulous also helps learners to identify and course correct quickly.

It is critical that students understand their role in a formative assessment classroom environment. Student behaviors include: engaging with learning goals, developing success criteria, providing feedback to peers, receiving feedback from teachers and peers, and more.