The Communicative Approach is so well-established, it's more or less the default methodology for second language teaching. But where did it come from? How has it evolved? Where does it work? What are its strengths and its weaknesses? In this wide-ranging conversation, in which Scott Thornbury and Jeremy Harmer interview each other, they will address these questions from the point of view of their own experience, convictions and doubts
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Over the last three months I’ve gone through a process which has shredded to bits my grounding in teaching, thrown it up in the air and reformulated some of it, and shown me how to throw out the ol... 
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If you missed the Macmillan online conference with A. Underhill, P. Sharma, S. Thornbury and many others, you can watch the sessions here: http://www.macmillanenglish.com/BlankTemplate.aspx?id=57542
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Scott Thornbury: Accuracy and fluency - it used to be the case that, of these two constructs, fluency was the one that was the most elusive and contentious – difficult to define, difficult to test, and only rarely achieved by classroom learners. But I’m increasingly coming to the view that, of the two constructs, it is accuracy that is really the more slippery. I’m even wondering if it’s not a concept that has reached its sell-by date, and should be quietly, but forcefully, put down. ...
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Pecha kuchas have become regular events at ELT conferences, ever since Lindsay Clandfield introduced the genre at the IATEFL Conference in Exeter in 2008 ...
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