Communicative Language Teaching in EFL settings:A Long Way to Go

摘要

An effective teaching methodology has always been a research target for languagernteachers. When structural approach is considered to be responsible for the incompetence inrncommunicative use of English, English teaching is directed to communicative approach, withrnstructural approach almost discarded. In this paper, I am going to explore the virtues and vices ofrneach approach, discuss the needs analysis of the students and the problems in communicativernlanguage teaching and work out a syllabus to build bridges between structural and communicativernapproaches and to benefit English teaching and learning.