Although communicative language teaching (CLT) was thought to have revolutionized classroom practice, there are “weak” and “strong” versions (Howatt, 1984). Most foreign classrooms in the world still favor weak with structure-based (SB) views on (Lightbown & Spada, 2013), practice Netherlands is not much different (West Verspoor, 2016). However, a small group of teachers started French as s...

Having introduced Competetive Team Based Learning (CTBL), my innovative approach to teaching, this paper presents a cogent and critical analysis comparison of CTBL with other popular methods /approaches in the arena Education general Language Teaching particular, terms their distinguishing features characteristics. Among such approaches are Communicative (CLT), Collaborative (ColL), Interactive...

This paper examines a four-month program of pedagogical training for Japanese Teachers of English (JTEs) in Canada based on a yardstick provided for communicative language teaching (CLT) in-service education and training (INSET) programs for teachers who teach English as a foreign language (EFL). In particular, with the purpose of determining the overall effectiveness of the Canadian pedagogica...

in recent years, the teaching of grammar and the importance attached to it has become a bone of contention among language teaching professionals. the emergence of the communicative approach (ca) in second or foreign language teaching has been one of the most important factors leading to this controversy. since the advent of ca in the second half of the 1970's grammar which had always occup...

this study attempts to investigate iranian efl teachers’ perception of the application of ellis’s (2005) principles for successful instructed language learning in their language classes. to this end, a group of efl teachers comprising high school and private language institute teachers took part in the study. the required data were gath- ered through a self-completion questionnaire developed by...

Currently, Communicative Language Teaching has been popular around the world and has a profound effect on second language acquisition since the 1970s. For Communicative Language Teaching to be successful, there is a need for appropriate teaching materials. This paper analyzes speaking tasks in Chinese and Swedish textbooks for grade 8,Go for it and Magic. The analysis presents content analysis,...