By mamataliyeva zarina

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) CLT is an approach and philosophical orientation that connects classroom-based language learning with the language that the learners need in order to enable the students to be able to speak outside classroom¹². Further, one of the goals in CLT is to develop the fluency of the learners (Richard, 2006). Therefore, the teacher should be able to build classroom activities in which students must negotiate meaning, use communication strategies, correct misunderstanding, and work to avoid communications breakd The strategies in focusing on fluency in the classroom activities are summarized as follows :
- reflect natural use of language - focus on achieving communication - require meaningful use of language - require the use of communication strategies - produce language that may not be predictable - seek to link language use to context
Learning to communicate in a foreign language, English for instance, is a process
of very complex activities of language acquisition. For young learners, to start learning
a foreign language is like to start learning one’s mother tongue. They need some more
time to listen to a foreign language in the classroom and they should have also more
chances to repeat some of the utterances they hear. According to Slattery and Willis in
their book of English for Primary Teachers (2001:43), although repetition of set
phrases does not mean that children are acquiring language, it is still very important.
They argue that repetition prepares children for meaningful communication in several
ways i.e. by helping them get used to saying English, by allowing them to practise the
intonation pattern, and by enabling them to gain confidence, especially if the teacher
gives a lot of praise. Accordingly, for teacher of YL it is suggested to open chances and
more time for the learners to listen words, utterances, set of phrases as a process of
developing learners’ speaking skill.