【正文】 questions 5 to 9 are designed to investigate the subjects’ knowledge of CLT。 (4) It advances taskbased language teaching. Students should be given tasks to perform or problems to solve in the classroom。 (2) It focuses on meaning rather than form。 Relating the language they teach to the way in which English is used.b.Freeman, 1986: 156). Besides, Richards and Rodgers pointes out the characteristics as fellows:a. on the other hand, it is the results of the prosperity of Western Europe. Just as China at the turn of the century, Western Europe also needs a linguistic terrace to achieve the goal of munication. Thus the upsurge of the CLT has its deeprooted background. But what we can not ignore is….Chinese foreign language teachers tend to plete their training at home. It’s no hard to imagine their authentic mastery of a foreign language. In addition, due to the continual rigid examination system in China, the “jugmug” teaching model has been deeprooted in this land. The rigid examination system drives teachers and students….Since CLT was introduced by Chinese scholars from western countries and applied in Chinese context, its effect has been being a hot topic. So through expounding the background and characteristics of CLT and analyzing the survey of CLT used in China, the author discusses the limitations and feasibilities of its use in Chinese context, which is expected to help Chinese teachers of English make best use of the teaching approach in China.ChapterⅡ Literature ReviewThrough tracing back the origin and the development of CLT and presenting its proponents’ various definitions, the author can see it is mon to all that municative approaching in language teaching starts from a theory of munication and has the aim to develop procedures for the teaching of the four language skills that acknowledge the independence of language and munication. The paper firstly makes a general study of CLT, including the background, the definition and the characteristics of CLT. Background of CLTThe origins of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) are to be found in the changes in the British language teaching tradition dating from the late 1960s. At that time, the major British approach to teaching English as a foreign language was Situational Language Teaching, in which language was taught by practicing basic structures in meaningful situationbased activities. Some British linguists began to ….With the increased interdependence of European mon market, the council of Europe found it urgent to develop alternative methods for developing courses, which focused on the needs of European learners. Wilkins proposes a functional or municative definition of language that could serve as a basis for developing municative syllabi for language teaching (Wilkins, 1978: 165). His municative analysis was …. Definitions of CLTRecently there is not a standard definition of CLT. For the definition of CLT, its proponents are active to stack the cards in their favor. Richards and Rodgers pointes out that CLT starts with a theory of language as munication, and its goal is to develop learner’s municative petence (Richards amp。 in English is opposite), the people consciously or unconsciously put their own desire and social attitude into the name when they choose surname. In English speaking countries, the children’s family name is the same with their father’s family name. The naming to women usually shows beauty, virtuous, pure and lovely and so on, such as Lily (a kind of flower), Susan (means grace), Diana (means elegant, beautiful and noble)。皖西學(xué)院2011屆本科畢業(yè)論文（設(shè)計(jì)）ChapterⅠ IntroductionFrom the point of crosscultural munication, every nation has his own habits and customs, way of thinking, language psychology, behavior criterion, value concept and cultural tradition. English and Chinese culture are extremely rich, so their total cultural equivalence is rare. But on menwomen relation discrimination to the female and the unequal status between men and women are the same. Thousands of years, men control the hegemony and they are always lawmakers, the narrators. In parison, women are only forced to obey. There is a famous saying by Heidegger: “the language is the home of existence.” But this “home” is an old house, which its bricks, flowers and woods are filled with ancestors’ ghost. All the words belongs to the former dynasties’ opinions. Now, women want to protest to the discriminated fate, but they are tonguetied. Lakoff said if women want to change their image, they should start from language, because you are what you say. It’s hel