Six Lessons: Cultural Continuity in Communicative Language Teaching.

Holliday, Adrian

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ERIC Number: EJ597295

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Publication Date: 1997

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Six Lessons: Cultural Continuity in Communicative Language Teaching.

Holliday, Adrian

Language Teaching Research, v1 n3 p212-38 Sep 1997

Discusses what makes good communicative English language teaching by focusing on an ethnographic study of six undergraduate university lessons. The lessons were observed while carrying out consultancy work in India and China. Suggests that cultural continuity between traditional and innovative forms of instruction emerges as an essential feature of successful language teaching. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Language Fluency, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: China; India

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