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<p>This paper attempts to explore Slovak EFL learners’ perceptions of the fundamental principles of communicative approach, which has been employed as the primary way of teaching foreign languages for the past five decades. Research participants were formed by 111 Slovak university EFL leaners – teacher trainees (n = 111), who were asked to demonstrate their level of agreement to the statements concerning communicative language teaching by responding to a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire. The calculated means indicate that overall, the research participants are in agreement with the selected principles of CLT as they agreed with 16 out of the 18 chosen statements. However, they appear to be neutral about two aspects of CLT, the use of native language at EFL lessons and discovering and investigating grammatical rules by learners themselves. Arising out of the research results, the conclusions are drawn, and pedagogical implications are discussed.</p>
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This paper attempts to explore Slovak EFL learners’ perceptions of the fundamental principles of communicative approach, which has been employed as the primary way of teaching foreign languages for the past five decades. Research participants were formed by 111 Slovak university EFL leaners – teacher trainees (n = 111), who were asked to demonstrate their level of agreement to the statements concerning communicative language teaching by responding to a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire. The calculated means indicate that overall, the research participants are in agreement with the selected principles of CLT as they agreed with 16 out of the 18 chosen statements. However, they appear to be neutral about two aspects of CLT, the use of native language at EFL lessons and discovering and investigating grammatical rules by learners themselves. Arising out of the research results, the conclusions are drawn, and pedagogical implications are discussed.

University EFL learners’ perceptions of communicative language teaching and learning

Journal of Language and Cultural Education

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This paper attempts to explore Slovak EFL learners’ perceptions of the fundamental principles of communicative approach, which has been employed as the primary...

University EFL learners’ perceptions of communicative language teaching and learning

Published Online: Jan 19, 2024

Page range: 53 - 59

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jolace-2023-0014

Keywords
CLT, communicative language teaching, communicative approach, L1, L2, EFL learner

© 2023 Rastislav Metruk, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

University EFL learners’ perceptions of communicative language teaching and learning

Published Online: Jan 19, 2024

Page range: 53 - 59

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jolace-2023-0014

KeywordsCLT, communicative language teaching, communicative approach, L1, L2, EFL learner

© 2023 Rastislav Metruk, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
CLT, communicative language teaching, communicative approach, L1, L2, EFL learner