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Some Approaches to Communicative Language Teaching in Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

H.H. Stern
H.H. Stern
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The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
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As in most other countries, the interest in communicative language teaching has been considerable in Canada. This interest has influenced curriculum development, materials production, experimental teaching, and approaches to language testing; and a good deal of experience has been reported. As everywhere else, there is in Canada today a need to clarify what is meant by communicative language teaching (CLT). In paper appearing in the proceedings of the 1978 AILA Congress in Montreal, the present author has attempted to distinguish between the psychopedagogic and the sociolinguistic concepts under which CLT has been understood (Stern, 1978). As will be seen, the distinction underlies this discussion.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , Fall 1980, pp. 57 - 63
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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