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The challenge – back to basics or brave new world?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Robin Goodfellow  and
Peter Metcalfe
Robin Goodfellow
Affiliation:
Institute of Educational Technology, Open University
Peter Metcalfe
Affiliation:
Institute of Educational Technology, Open University
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When we decided to put this issue together, we called for contributions from CALL researchers and practitioners who were ‘‥concerned with the teaching of grammar in the post-communicative world…’. We were aware of the contentious nature of such a description – it suggests that the communicative approach is not, perhaps, a complete answer to the question of how to teach languages. Amongst the correspondence we entered into, subsequently, were some exchanges with colleagues who believed we were advocating a retrogressive step. It is only comparatively recently, they pointed out, that language learners have been freed from the shackles of piece-meal learning, drilling, correction and self-monitoring, and allowed to focus on ‘the challenge of communication’

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Research Article
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ReCALL , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , November 1997 , pp. 4 - 7
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Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1997

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