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Patel & Jain (2002: 95) states that ―the communicative approach is a
learner centered approach. This approach gives the learner not only grammatical

competence but also a social skill as to what to say, how to say, when to say and
where, in order to satisfy his daily needs as larger aim (Lyubova, Bilyalova, &

Evgrafova, 2014: 263). In this approach, apart from fluency, accuracy and

appropriateness are equally important‖. Communicative approach here refers to
communicative competence. The language learning process is created

communicatively. Thus an effective use of language needs to produce
grammatically well formed.

Based on the explanation of CLT mentioned above, the researcher sees
that CLT is as an approach not a method that aims to create language learners‘

communicative competence. The goal of CLT is to make language learners enable

to communicate the language learnt by them in their live. This CLT approach is
designed to develop both the accuracy and fluency. To reach communicative

competence needs other competences such us grammatical, strategic,

sociolinguistic, actional and discourse competence.
b. The Evolution of CLT

The CLT in language teaching starts from a theory of language as
communication or language as action (see Savignon, 2001; Celce-Mucia, 2007).

The goal of language teaching is to develop what some linguist such as Hymes
who refers to as communicative competence. Hymes creates this term in order to

try to contrast a communicative view of language and Chomsky‘s theory of

competence.
Richards & Rodgers (1999: 71) state that ―a person who acquires

communicative competence acquires both knowledge and ability for language
production with respect to; whether something is formally possible, whether

something is feasible in virtue of the means of implementation available, whether
something is appropriate in relation to a context in which it is used and evaluated,

and whether something is in fact done actually performed, and what it‘s doing

entails‖.
The nature of language as a means of communication is a foundation in

applying CLT approach. The act of communicative can found in many

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