A NEW FRAMEWORK OF COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING TO CORRESPOND WITH THE CURRENT DIGITAL INSTRUCTIONAL ERA

Abstract

Language learning factors and processes are experiencing substantial changes due
to the expansion of digital learning sources and learning mechanisms. Not only
humans but also machines are now becoming significant learning factors and
learning processes. For this reason, this study is intended to propose a new model

of CLT to respond to the multiple and diverse communication channels. A teaching-
learning model needs to be developed based on the composite learning principle.

This is a library study composed of collecting, studying, comparing, and analyzing
various teaching-learning principles as postulated in various approaches. The
results reveal that technologies in teaching and learning (education) and the way
people learn languages has been revolutionizing. The focus of the English education
contents (whats), venues (wheres), and ways (hows) have shifted from the
traditional to the conventional broadcasting functionalities, and then to the web and
the social media-platform of “folksonomies” and “mash-ups”. The principles of
English learning-teaching demand fine-tuning that are relevant with the new

learning-teaching ecology. The keep-changing currency of knowledge and tech-
tools needs to be accommodated in the ecology.A new communicative language

teaching-learning model relevant to how a new communicative language teaching
(CLT) and learning constructs is proposed here.