“The linguists and applied linguists who had such a profound influence on the development of several varieties of communicative language teaching (CLT) were dissatisfied with pedagogical approaches which treated language a set of morpho-syntactic rules rather than as a richer system of communication involving many kinds of competence other than purely syntactic” (Lightbown 2000, p. 435) As developers of CLT, these linguists and applied linguists wanted to 16