competency based language teaching

Definition of CBLT

Competency Based Language Teaching is a method or based on functional and interaction of language to improve the quality in terms of assessment teaching and student learning.

The goal of CBLT

To enable student to become autonomous individuals capable of coping with the demands of the world, and can also assist learners in mastering the competencies to be able reading, listening, creative and observe it to form a competence.

The characteristic of CBLT

—  A focus on successful functioning in society

—  A focus on life skills

—  Task or performance centered orientation

—  Modularized instruction

—  Outcomes that are made explicit a priori

—  Continuous and ongoing assessment

—  Demonstrated mastery of performance objectives

—  Individualized, student centered instruction

Use Language and Language Skills

—  The emphasized areas of language are on overt behavior rather than on knowledge or the ability to talk about language and skill:

Ø Pronunciation

Ø Vocabulary

Ø Grammar Pattern

Ø Writing

Ø Speaking

Ø  Reading 

The advantages of CBLT

—  The learner can judge whether the competencies seem relevant and useful

—  The competencies are specific and practical can be seen to relate to the learners need and interest

—  The student can generally communicate well, having learn all the basic structure of the language

—  The competencies can be mastered one at a time, so the learners can see what has been learned and what still remains to be learned

—  The students are motivated to mention and understand the word in the target language because the teacher uses some media to improve the skill or learner. 

The disadvantages of CBLT

The learning and teaching process will be passive if the teachers do not motivate their student to improve ability to apply basic and other skill in situations that are commonly encountered in everyday life. 

CONCLUSION

CBLT is a method teaching about language as the subject to enable student to become autonomous individuals capable of coping with the demands of the world.