Search results for: Francis Mangubhai
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Teaching and Teacher Education > 2004 > 20 > 3 > 291-311
In recent decades, teachers of second languages in many countries, including Australia, have been encouraged to use an approach known as communicative language teaching (CLT). This approach advocates the development of communicative competence as a primary goal through the extensive use of the second language as a means of communication during classroom lessons. Understandably, education authorities...
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International Journal of Educational Research > 2001 > 35 > 2 > 147-156
In the field of second language (SL) learning there is now little argument that one of the ideal conditions for learning is the provision of ample language input, whether it is oral or written. The Fiji ''Book Flood'' was one of the earliest studies of the effect of the provision of opportunities for regular reading in the classroom on growth in English, an SL, and it strongly supported the above...
