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Which ESL teaching method is the best??

by Sarah

Jun 15, 2012

I'm a graduate student MS student working towards an ESL cerf. to be ESL teacher. I was writing the paper about ESL teaching method. I think communicative approaches like Communicative Language Teaching and Task-based Teaching are better than the other methods.What do you think? In my experience as an ELL, the grammar-translation method and audiolingual method focused a lot on rote memorization and drilling, which were not meaningful. Although I learned a lot of grammar and vocabulary through GTM and ALM, I could not use the language realistically in everyday life. Therefore, I believed in communicative approaches like Communicative Language Teaching and Task-based Teaching. Then, how often ESL teachers actually use communicative approaches like Communicative Language Teaching and Task-based Teaching? All the time? 3,4 times a week? 1,2 a week? or rarely? I know theory is different from practice. I would like to know what it is like in a real classroom? Thank you in advance!!!

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