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Item A Case Study on Effects of Communicative Teaching Method in Improving English Speaking Skills of Grade Ten Students.(The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Sebarajah, A.The research focuses on fostering speaking skills through Communicative Language Teaching which has been attempted to adopt in ESL classrooms in schools in Sri Lanka by the Government since the late 1980s. (National Institute of Education, 1999). In this perspective this study was conducted at Mn/ Vaddakkandal G.T.M School, Manthai West division of Madhu education zone, Mannar, where most of the students are unable to communicate spontaneously in English. The research problem of this study was to investigate how Communicative Language Teaching contributes to improve speaking skills of the grade ten students and how to overcome their speaking difficulties. Therefore, this research aims at investigating the use of Communicative Language Teaching approach to overcome the students‟ problems in speaking. In conducting the research both quantitative and qualitative methods were adopted to collect and analyze the data for the study. A questionnaire was administered for the students to identify their attitudes about the speaking skill. The findings of the questionnaire clearly express the positive attitudes on implementing the CLT in the ESL classroom. Furthermore, pre-test and post-test were conducted in the study, while comparing and analyzing the means of pre-test (38.3) and post-test (52.16) of this study found the effectiveness in implementing the approach to develop students speaking skill. Therefore, the findings of the research demonstrate that communicative language teaching is an effective method to develop students‟ speaking skills. It encourages students‟ participation, promotes confidence, and prepares students for real-life communication. Besides, it gives an opportunity to the students to use the target language freely. Moreover, it allows students to make decisions about how to express and to achieve the goal of developing their speaking skills.Item Contribution of Classroom towards the Development of Communication Language Teaching in Sri Lanka. (With Special Reference to Kurunegala District)(University of Kelaniya, 2015) Herath, D.M.S.K.Most of language teachers (Sinhala, Tamil and English) claim to have made use of communicative methodology in their classroom. Communicative Language Teaching can be understood as a simple set of principles about the goals of language teaching, how learners learn a language, kinds of classroom activities which best facilitate learning, and the roles of teacher and learners in the classroom. Language Teaching aims to teach communicative competence of which this includes several aspects, such as: knowing how to use language for a range of different purposes and functions knowing how to vary our use of language according to the setting and the participants (e.g., knowing when to use formal and informal speech or when to use language appropriately for written as opposed to spoken communication). The purpose of this research is to study the nature of contribution of classroom towards the development of communicative language teaching in Sri Lanka. The selection of the sample involved in the selection of 10 schools in Kurunegala district and the selection of students and Language Teacher’s in those Schools. Due to time and other constraints it was necessary to limit the sample for 10 schools in one district. Based on Attendance lists maintained by these schools, in order to give a fair chance to all, using simple random sampling method 05 students were selected to administer the questionnaire 1. The second questionnaire was administered among the language teachers of each school. (Two Language Teachers were selected by those schools according to the recommendation of principal.) Studies on the Communicative Language Teaching is one of the key research areas in the field of Linguistics. The analysis of data revealed the following major findings: School Class room has been playing a vital role in the promotion of language teaching in Sri Lanka .Translations of short passages into the Mother Tongue can be turned into an imaginative and highly interactive exercise to Develop Bilingual Language Ability. Interaction between the learner and users of the language is important to understand the language in a good manner. Creating meaningful and purposeful interaction through language is the most successful way to make a good language user. Also negotiation of meaning as the learner and his or her interlocutor arrive at understanding and learning through attending to the feedback learners get when they use the language. Trying out and experimenting with different ways of saying things is the easiest way to become familiar with any Language Teacher’s need Good Practice about Communicative Language teaching.