Characteristics and Problems of CLT

The present paper makes a short introduction about 8 kinds of teaching approaches and methods, later with a focus on the approach of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). This paper first summarizes the characteristics of CLT, and after that gives the existing problems of CLT, and in the end a conclusion is made. The purpose of this paper is to make a clear understanding of CLT in order to provide some advice to carry out it.