摘要：Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) came up at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and formalized in the late 1960s, reflecting the social changes. It is critically evaluated as a theory in foreign language teaching based on an overall review of its history, theory and application. However, the difficulties of its application in certain countries are continually discussed, such as cultural conflicts and teacher training. Based on the evaluation, this essay points out that only combined with the characters like teaching environment, educational background and cultural background of teachers and learners, as well as test systems will CLT play a more significant role in language teaching.
关键词：critical evaluation; CLT; SLT; language teaching; cultural background; test systems; challenges
