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Communicative CALL: a contradiction in terms?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2011

Paul Seedhouse
Affiliation:
The British Council, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

This article examines the extent to which CALL and Communicative methodology are compatible. Although attempting to be relevant to language teaching in general, it is written from an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) perspective and considers only the British tradition of the Communicative Approach.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1992

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