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Communicative Language Teaching aims broadly to
apply the theoretical perspective of the
Communicative Approach by making communicative
competence the goal of language teaching and by
acknowledging the interdependence of language and
communication. What this looks like in the
classroom may depend on how the tenets are
interpreted and applied. Nevertheless, we will follow
our usual way of und erstanding the theor y and
ussocia rcd practices by visiting a class in which a
form of Communicative Language Teaching is being
practiced. The class we will visit is one being
conducted for adult immigrants to Canada . These
twenty people have lived in Canada for two years
and are at a high-intermediate level of English
proficiency. They meet two evenings a week for two
hours each class.
LARSEN-FREEMAN, Diane. Techniques and Principles in Language
Teaching. 3rd ed. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press,
2011.