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DEAR  EDITORI`d like to  know what teachers/educators are talking nowadays about the EFL methodology used in classroom and how the teachers/educators see this. I` m a Brazilian teacher and I`m doing a search for a monography about this so interesting subject.Very thankfulJanice Flores

Magic79 · Accepted Answer

What teachers are talking about is actually what Larsen-Freeman talked about in her books Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching.

If the instructor fond of Task-Based Approach (TBA), he may talk and focus more on it than the others. But I think today's trend is the Communicative Approach and Teaching English for Specific Purposes.

I subscribe to the TBA because it gives the students a lot of work to do rather than being lectured, the students are busy working with the language to finish some tasks designed for language learning whether direct or incidental. The new TBA version has some activities focusing on grammar at the end of each task.

Maurice Aden · Answer

The modern English language teacher is spoilt for choice when it comes to selecting material for use in class. There are hundreds of excellent course-books on the market and a wealth of supplementary material. Many of these books will include interesting and motivating exercises and activities based on communicative principles. There is little doubt that activities such as information-gap, questionnaires, interviewing, mingling and so on will work well in the multilingual classroom where learners from diverse backgrounds are required to use English as the only means of communication. Such activities have become commonplace in classrooms in the English-speaking environment and they are widely used to good effect to promote fluency and to give contextualised practise of grammatical structures, functional exponents and items of vocabulary.

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