Contemporary teachers have become mainly classroom managers and operators of materials. This is perhaps a natural outcome of Communicative Approaches-and of much current training-but is it really what we want？ We may desire more ＂learning-centred approach＂, but in class much teaching has become ritualised, with organizational tools such as ＂group discussion＂ seemingly expected to achieve learning goals without any teacher intervention.
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