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The Research on Effectiveness of Communicative Language Teaching in China

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Since China initiated Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) practice, it has enjoyed increasing popularity amongst educational practitioners as well as professional researchers. This paper undertakes an in-depth and all-around analysis of pedagogical practices of English class so as to ascertain the feasibility and effectiveness of CLT in China. Although China’s educational system is centrally-controlled, the top-down intervening policy of CLT fails to improve students’ interactive competence. Due to the contextual constraints including excessive class size, limited class hours, Confucian heritage culture, teacher equalizations as well as norm-referenced assessment, current situation of English Language Teaching (ELT) nevertheless is far from aligning with the tenet of CLT. This paper reveals that direct transfer of western–originated CLT practice is infeasible and ineffectual without considering the specific contextual factors in China and doomed to be a failure. Based on this argument, a combination of traditional pedagogy and CLT with an eclectic and dichotomous perspective is proposed and recommended to put into practice in the hope of adapting CLT paradigm to the particular Chinese contexts.

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  • Bao e Song, 2019. "The Research on Effectiveness of Communicative Language Teaching in China," Asian Culture and History, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 11(1), pages 1-1, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:ach123:v:11:y:2019:i:1:p:1
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    1. Liping Wei & Hsin-Hui Lin & Freddie Litton, 2018. "Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in EFL Context in Asia," Asian Culture and History, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 10(2), pages 1-1, September.
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