The majority of language teachers these days teach ‘communicatively’: they encourage learner interaction as much as they can and pay a lot of attention to things like style and register, functional language and strategies for getting your message across. However, this focus on communication often comes at the expense of accuracy, and as a result many of our students may be fairly fluent but unfortunately make a lot more mistakes than those who were taught English in a more ‘traditional’ manner. In this presentation, we aim to re-evaluate the role of accuracy in communicative language teaching and demonstrate techniques and activities for enhancing accuracy in a communicative classroom.
RE-EVALUATING THE ROLE OF ACCURACY IN COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING
10:00 - 10:50, 10 April, 2021, Spring 21 Virtual IP Exhibition
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