Language Teaching Communicative Approach

Author: H.G. Widdowson
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Publish Date: 1999-05-01
Features: This book is an academic monograph introducing and reviewing the emerging method of language teaching—Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), published in 1978 and reprinted nine times by 1996. The author, H.G. Widdowson, is a professor of English as a Foreign Language at the Institute of Education, University of London, and a renowned applied linguist. Widdowson is one of the founders of CLT. Based on a thorough consideration of the nature of language and its practical use, he advocates a more rational and effective language teaching method—Communicative Language Teaching. This book systematically and comprehensively elaborates on the theoretical basis and practical methods of this approach, clarifying relevant doubts and misconceptions.