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Observe the fragment bellow about the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT): Communicative language teaching (CLT) is an approach to language teaching that emphasizes learning a language first and foremost for the purpose of communicating with others. Communication includes finding out about what people did on the weekend . . . or on their last vacation and learning about classmates’ interests, activities, preferences and opinions and conveying one’s own. It may also involve explaining daily routines to others who want to know about them, discussing current events, writing an email message with some personal news, or telling others about an interesting book or article or Internet video clip. Source: DUFF, P. Communicative language teaching. In: CELCE-MURCIA, M; BRINTON, D; and SNOW, M.A. (eds.) Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language . Boston: National Geographic Learning, 2014. Concerning the approach defined in the text above, choose the alternative that includes correct information about the CLT:

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C) English classes based on CLT are mostly focused on teaching students how to effectively use the language in order to communicate with other people, and therefore interactive tasks are frequently recommended;

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A) The focus of the Communicative Language Teaching is the mastery of grammar rules disregarding the actual use of language since it is based on the idea that knowing grammar is enough for being proficient;

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B) The main goal of CLT is to teach writing rather than speaking, inasmuch as written interaction is more important than spoken communication in people’s daily routines;

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D) Classes inspired by the Communicative Language Teaching are generally focused on the learners’ capacity to read texts effectively so translating literary texts is often required.

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