An Analysis on Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory in Communicative Language Teaching Mode

Communicative Language Teaching(CLT)plays a vital role in foreign language teaching.Learners may improve their communicative language profi ciency under CLT mode.Many researches on Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory show that learning as a social and cultural rather than individual phenomenon takes place through meaningful interaction with people,and thus the people in the environment are essential to the development of new knowledge.This paper mainly analyses Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory in CLT mode.The conclusions in this paper may help the readers gain an insight into the relations between the Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory and CLT as well as awaken the awareness of designing the activities for teaching.