“…In addition, the usability of the CLT method in English teaching, specifically for students in remote areas, still needs to be improved. Various local factors were mentioned, including lack of previous teaching experiences that make up teachers' beliefs (Al-Khayyat, 2019), teachers' misconceptions of the use of communicative language teaching (Putra et al, 2021), teachers' teaching competence and workloads (Banagbanag, 2020), insufficient learning activities (Irambona & Chang'ach, 2023), and diverse interpretations of CLT among educators (Dörnyei, 2021). Therefore, this qualitative study aims to explore the perceptions of male and female pre-service English language teachers regarding using the CLT method in teaching speaking skills.…”