Iranian ELT Curriculum and Communicative Pedagogy

This main aim of this paper is to report the results of a preliminary analysis that has been done regarding the Iranian ELT curriculum and Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). It basically highlights main goals as well as aspects of this curriculum document. One of the most important stages in this research was designing a checklist composing of main principles of CLT. This checklist was designed so that the researcher could go through the curriculum compare it with the principles of CLT.