SPEAKING AND LISTENING PRACTICE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING THROUGH COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING AT HSC LEVEL

Abstract

This paper aims to pick up some problems and give some suggestions to learn speaking and listening skills through CLT at Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) level. Speaking and listening which are very important to communicate through the target language are two of the four language skills. Speaking is a productive skill whereas listening is a receptive one. Without the proper practice of these two language skills, learning can notbe held effectively. Communicative language teaching is the best way to learn target language in which four skills are equally emphasized. Bangladesh has already introduced CLT at the HSC level. But, in 2011 a study finds that learners at this level are still lagged behind and are facing many problems to be communicative in English.