Communicative Language TeachingBackground 1Chomsky- incapable of accounting for the fundamental characteristic of language, that is, the creativity and uniqueness of individual sentences British applied linguists- inadequately addressed in approaches to language teaching at that time, that is, the functional and communicative potential of language So they saw the need to focus in language teaching on communicative proficiency rather than on mere mastery of stuctures. 2Another impetus -came from
