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Communicative Competence and Foreign Language Learning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2008

John L. Clark
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Recent developments in the teaching of foreign languages at school level have been primarily, if not exclusively, concerned with attempts to move away from the more academic form-focused views of language and language teaching that prevailed well into the 70s, towards the more practical and communicatively-oriented approaches in vogue today. Many projects have added useful insights in this areas, and it would be impossible to do justice to them all. It is proposed, therefore, to limit the scope of this chapter to the description of a rather as a subject rather than as a medium of instruction. It is hoped that these will be seen as representative of the much wider range of school foreign language teaching developments that have taken place across the world in recent years. First, however, a brief attempt will be made to outline the background from which these more communicatively-oriented approaches have emerged.

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Communicative Language Teaching
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 8 , March 1987 , pp. 85 - 96
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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