Communicative Approach in the Iraqi Secondary Schools: Between Theory and Practice

Abstract

The present study is an attempt to investigate the application of Communicative Approach in Iraqi secondary schools. The new English syllabus has been established for the sake of communication values, see this study aims to show the CLT between theory and practice. The study falls in four sections, they are.The first section presents a general introduction to the communicative approach and the aim, problems and hypothesis of the study. The second section is devoted to show summary and providing information about CLT in general and the role of teacher and learner. The Third section transfers the study from theory to practice . In this practical section ,the content of the test, the administration of the test ,and then the results obtained with their discussions are illustrated. The final section of this paper shows the concluding remarks of the study. Also the validity of the hypothesis is checked here in this section. References are listed at the end as well.