@thesis{thesis, author={Rusadi Karina}, title ={TEACHERS PERCEPTIONS AND PRACTICES OF COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING ENGLISH AT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN TAPIN}, year={2024}, url={http://eprints.uniska-bjm.ac.id/23296/}, abstract={CLT could be understood as a set of principles about the goals of language teaching. It focuses on how students learn a language, promotes interactive classroom activities and encourages real-life communication. CLT has several principles: using task-based instruction, emphasizing learning by doing, acquiring meaningful and comprehensible input, emphasizing cooperative and collaborative learning, teaching grammar within contexts and through communicative tasks.This reseach was a qualitative research. Qualitative research is a type of research methodology that aims to explore and understand the subjective experiences, meanings, and interpretations of individuals or groups. This study used an interview study as the design of this research. Semi-structured interviews are superbly suited for a number of valuable tasks, particularly when more than a few of the open-ended questions require follow-up queries. This research was aimed for knowing about teachers perceptions and practices of communicative language teaching English at junior high school in Tapin. The main problem teachers face when implementing Communicative Language Teaching is that students have different language abilities. Although teachers may be aware of the principles of CLT, they find it difficult to apply them effectively in the classroomIn conclusion, the teachers have a good and positive perceptions about CLT approach, prove by how they implement CLT in the classroom, for students? speaking aspect. Even one of them did not realize that he/she used CLT approach for their teaching activities.} }