The effectiveness of implementing the communicative approach and its techniques in teaching English as a Foreign language by EFL university teachers in KSA

Teaching a foreign language in different Arab-African countries has substituted from form-focused instruction to communicative-focused instruction in recent decades. Some researchers have discovered a space between theory and practice of CLT and how to link foreign language teaching to the real context of use by implementing CLT techniques. This study tries to find out the effectiveness of implementing the communicative approach and its techniques in teaching EFL by EFL university teachers in Saudi Arabia. The researcher used a descriptive method. A questionnaire was administered to (11) EFL university teachers to evaluate whether they implement the techniques of CLT effectively during their normal classes or not. The results showed that EFL university teachers could implement the techniques of CLT effectively in the class because CLT is full of enormous and different techniques and activities that facilitate handling the procedure of teaching and learning the English language and improve all its four skills. CLT also creates significative and authentic communication, at all levels. Moreover, it has more stress on skills than systems, lessons are more student-centered, and the usage of real materials has a helpful consequence on the interaction of EFL university students with the techniques of CLT.