Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) method in Iran

Methodology is one of the important and critical factors that plays an essential role in achieving the acceptable result in educational fields, especially in the process of language teaching and learning in applied linguistics.CLT as a modern approach has been accepted in language teaching domain in many developed countries, but in some developing countries such as Iran, it does not have the same popularity. The aim of this paper is to review the main problems of applying CLT in Iran.

Keywords:

teaching methodology , teaching approach , CLT , EFL , CLT in Iran