In recent years, the development of communicative competence has become the explicit focus of numerous second language teaching programs. Although models of communicative competence and principles of ...

The contention of this paper is that many activities in the communicative language teaching (CLT) classroom discourage reflection or contemplation. The first part of this paper analyzes the prominence ...

TESOL International Association, the organization for teachers who specialize in working with English-language learners, has released a set of six principles designed to improve the teaching and ...