Communicative Language Teaching in Different Countries

The concept of language teaching methods has a long tradition in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT), and it has been affected by the rise and fall of different methods throughout its development (Richards & Renandya, 2002). One of the most conventional approaches or methods of Foreign Language (FL) and Second Language (SL) teaching is Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), which was developed during the 1960s and 1970s based on Hymes' (1972) and Canale and Swain's theories (1980) of language teaching, referred to as "Communicative Competence (CC)".