[01] Syed Reza, Jubail University College, Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

Communicative Language Teaching has undoubtedly played an instrumental role in aiding people learn English so that they possess communicative competence. After 4 years of working as an educator with Jazan University between 2011 and 2015, my observations were shared on why CLT should be favored over other methods and approaches. There were many contemporary applications of CLT. Johnson and Johnson noted five characteristics that the author contended are quintessential for language teaching. Appropriateness is the first of them followed by focus messaging, psycholinguistic processing, and then trial and error or risk taking. The characteristic of free practice is the last of the five. These characteristics have formed the basis of my research methodology. The author does a juxtaposition between CLT and the Audio-lingual method in his context. In addition, course content is described in all 5 skills and their textbooks. These courses and sources are evaluated from the lenses of CLT and audio-lingualism. A description of my setting in the KSA will help to further understand the nature of Saudi perspectives about learning English, the education system, educators and the level of students in Jazan University. The challenges in the approach that have come to the surface from teaching in my context will be of focus.

Communicative, Language, Teaching, method, English, Arabic, Saudi, Jazan

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