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== Criticisms of CLT? ==

Recent critiques of CLT include an article by Stephen Bax entitled: "The end of CLT: a Context Approach to language teaching" in which he argues that the dominance of CLT has led to the neglect of one crucial aspect of language pedagogy, namely the context in which that pedagogy takes place. Bax argues that it is time to replace CLT as the central paradigm in language teaching with a Context Approach which places context at the heart of the profession. The article argues that such a shift is taking place already and will eventually change our practice radically.

Are there any criticisms of CLT? It would be nice to include these.

This was published alongside an interesting response by Jeremy Harmer.

References:

Bax, S (2003) The end of CLT: a context approach to language teaching

ELT J 2003 57: 278-287

Harmer, J. (2003) Popular culture, methods, and context

ELT J 2003 57: 288-294

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