The Application of Communicative Language Teaching to Listening and Speaking Teaching in Junior High School

Abstract

With the deepening of globalization, English listening and speaking competence gains more attention of the whole society. And the New English Curriculum Standards put more emphasis on the cultivation of students’ listening and speaking skills and place greater demands on students. The period of junior high school is extremely crucial for most students to develop the ability of cross-cultural communication. Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), a language teaching approach, concerns about the promotion of learners’ ability to achieve effective communication using the target language in real social contexts. Therefore, the application of CLT to English listening and speaking teaching is conductive to improving students’ communicative competence. This paper aims to briefly introduce the theoretical basis of CLT, and then provide a practical case based on it in a bid to illustrate the application of CLT to listening and speaking teaching in junior high school.