Communicative Approach: Some Misapprehensions

Though Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is acknowledged by the National Curriculum & Textbook Board (NCTB) and many English teachers as one of the most effective approaches in English language teaching in Bangladesh, there are still a number of misapprehensions about it. By comparing Johnstone; Sato and Kleinsasser and Thompson as well as Spada, this article focuses on four of the main misapprehensions, which are usually held by the language teachers and researchers.