Communicative language teaching
Communicative language teaching assumes that language teaching will reflect the particular needs of the target learners. These needs may be in the domains of reading， listening， writing， or speaking. And each of the former skills can be approached from a communicative perspective.
The comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of SLT &CLT in teaching
In university English teaching， many freshmen are shy and don’t want to communicate with each other in the process of teaching. They also don’t want to recite new words and rules of new grammar. So being as English teacher， we have to make students speak English as often as possible， and make then have the ability to learn by themselves. Generally speaking， English speaking proficiency can only be acquired in the process of speaking English students communicative ability can not be learned simply by means of reading materials and studying grammars. It needs much practice. Therefore， the only way is to make efforts to get the class going on in English.
Moreover， English teacher should make students be center. In situational Language teaching， Reading and writing are introduced once a sufficient lexical and grammatical basis is established， while Situational Language teaching uses a structural syllabus and a word list. Structures are always taught within sentences， and vocabulary is chosen according to how well it enables sentence patterns to be taught. The practice techniques employed generally consist of guided repetition and substitution activities， including chorus repetition， dictation， drills， and controlled oral-based reading and writing tasks. Since the purpose of teaching a foreign language is to enable the learners to use it， and then it must be heard， spoken， read， and written in suitable realistic situations. Neither translation nor mechanical drills can help if they are not connected with practical life. The situational language teaching methods focused on the need to practice language in meaningful situation-based activities.