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Interpreting Communicative Lang Teaching

Interpreting Communicative Lang Teaching

Savignon, Sandra J.

Paperback

Series: Yale Language

Foreign Language GeneralLinguistics

ISBN10: 0300091567
ISBN13: 9780300091564
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Apr 10 2002
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.38
Language: English
The emergence of English as a global language, along with technological innovations and the growing need for learner autonomy, is changing language teaching rapidly and profoundly. With these changes come new demands and challenges for teaching education programs.

This authoritative collection of writings highlights some of the best work being done today in the United States and abroad to make communicative competence an attainable goal. The contributors examine what has come to be known as communicative language teaching, or CLT, from the perspectives of teachers and teacher educators.

The book documents current reform initiatives in Japan, the United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and continental Europe to provide a global perspective on language teaching for communicative competence. Four major themes recur throughout the volume: the multifaceted nature of language teaching; the highly contextualized nature of CLT; the futility of defining a native speaker in the postcolonial, postmodern world; and the overwhelming influence of high-stakes tests on language teaching. The book is a useful and valuable tool for language teachers, teacher educators, and policymakers.

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