THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING(CLT) IN DEVELOPING ESL LEARNERS` LISTENING COMPREHENSION: A THEORETICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Аннотация

Nowadays, teaching a foreign language to students has come a long way since its early days necessitating a lot of skills together with innovative approaches. So, modern teachers are investigating through different methodologies to facilitate learning process emphasizing organic exposure to authentic materials over rote memorization. As a result, educators are giving precedence to CLT( Communicative language teaching) to advance its effectiveness mainly due to a wide range of benefits it offers to learners. Especially, among four fundamental language skills listening is often argued as the most challenging because it deals with both top-down and bottom-up processing. As a consequence the introduction of CLT in teaching receptive skills like listening is gaining worldwide attention though it is a comparatively new phenomenon. This article highlights the implementation of CLT in developing listening comprehension skills effectively in ESL classroom through different strategies and techniques. Key words:Communicative listening pedagogy, listening comprehension, authentic listening input, task-based listening instruction, top-down and bottom-up listening processing, meaning-focused listening, comprehensible aural input,paralinguistic cues