Thursday, February 21, 2019

Comparison of Clt and Tblt

Task-based vocabulary precept (TBLT) and Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) be both communicatory approaches to linguistic communication learning and teaching. TBLT has gr consume out of CLT however, they share and differ in some advantages and disadvantages. First of all in all, both of them are among current communicative approaches. Thats why, the classes those are instructed with CLT or TBLT are student centred and teachers are facilitator. That brush aside be seen as the good side of these approaches.On the contrary to the tralatitious classes, students are actively involved in learning process and this motivates them more. Because they are motivated, they learn more, and it turns to be an advantage. As it is a pedagogical fact, it is also true for Turkish learners. two CLT and TBLT emphasise communication, they give the opportunity to talk more, as opposed to traditional methods, which is a big advantage for language learning. CLT emphasises that language should be as close as in real life, and TBLT shares this principle.It means both lay out emphasis on authenticity. This is important because today many researches prove that language should be taught in real life situations or with authentic materials. As the language is a living thing, it messnot be parted from real life. This is how it should be not only in Turkish context of use but everyplace in the world. However, there are some limitations in Turkish context of learning for these two communicative approaches. First of all, bomb is a coarse where English is not spoken officially.And, nigh all of our English teachers are non-native. And this is one of the main constraints for TBLT and CLT classes. Although the teacher is a facilitator, it can be in any case demanding for non-native teachers to teach in such communicative classes. And also, the size of classes in Turkey is not perfectly suitable for both CLT and TBLT. Both are communicative approaches, and language activities / tas ks should be carried out in groups or in pairs. Nevertheless, it is almost impossible to do it in crowded classes.A communicative activity or a task cannot be carried out in such as well as crowded classes. The teacher faces the problems dividing the class into groups or pairs and if she can achieve dividing, there comes the time limit. She cannot practice the activities in her lesson in those crowded classes On the several(predicate) hand, its difficult for the teacher to walk around and monitor all the students at the time of communicative activities. Nonetheless, CLT and TBLT have some differences also.In CLT classes, although activities are real-life situations and modify learners to interact, they can be perceived as too abstract by learners. In spite of the teachers efforts, classroom activities are not real life. Thats because Turkish learners of English cannot hear the language except for the classroom and they comely pretend to be real life. On the other hand, TBLT has an advantage everywhere CLT in this case. Tasks have immediate outcome, and that can motivate the Turkish learners more.It can also be said that CLT doesnt meet the needs of the different types of learners, but again TBLT has an advantage over it, as tasks can be adapted for different learning styles or for different cultures. To practice CLT in Turkish context, the first phase should be developing a computer programme thats compatible with CLT. However, in Turkey, we generally prepare a syllabus, and then, we ask our methods or our course books. Since TBLT is more instructional, those specially designed instructional tasks can be the basis of learning situations, in Turkish context TBLT has other advantage.To sum up, I think both the two methods achieve communicative purposes and real use of language as they are important aspects in language learning & teaching. They should be combined also with other methods concerning every factor that influence teaching. Each method has its advantages as well as its limitations. A method is effective only when it is appropriate to the teaching context. The take up thing to do is to develop ones own teaching methods based on the context of where one teaches and integrates the merits of different methodologies to fulfill their own teaching objectives.

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