ABSTRACT
The study was undertaken to examine the impact of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) on the communicative competence in English of SS11 Students in Funtua, Katsina State. Quasiexperimental design was employed in the study. The population of the study comprised all SS11 students in the nine public secondary schools in Funtua, Katsina State. For valid and reliable result, a purposive sampling technique was employed for the sample population in two schools; Government Girls' Secondary School (senior), Funtua (N=10) and Government College (Day wing-Senior), Funtua (N=10). More so, the frame-work of the study on communicative competence was adopted in two of the four areas of communicative competence; linguistic and sociolinguistic competence. Subjects' responses on four different tasks; description, debate, story-telling and role-play were recorded and transcribed and the data collected were analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. In order to find out the significant levels of relationship that exists between the variables stated in the study, Harmonic Mean and ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) were used. One major focus of the study is the adoption of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) for the development of communicative competence in learners of English as a target language. However, the results of the findings show that CLT has significant impact on the oral performance of the candidates. The exposure to different oral language activities has built students confidence and willingness to participate in any language task. However, the results of the findings of this study will encourage the integration of CLT approach in our schools' syllabuses, textbooks and teaching methodology.