Volume 67
Teachers’ views on the appropriateness and feasibility of CLT in Pakistan
In recent years, a number of scholars have claimed that communicative language teaching (CLT) approaches are unsuitable when used prescriptively, or in non-western contexts. To discover whether this statement is accurate with regard to Pakistan, the study reported in this paper explored the views of a number of experienced teachers of English in tertiary colleges about the feasibility and appropriateness of using communicative approaches in their classrooms.
Increasing and maintaining student engagement during TBL
At present, task-based learning (TBL) faces several issues in the context of high school classes in Japan, such as a lack of motivation or student engagement during tasks. Stroud (2013) recently found significant correlation between Keller’s (1987) ARCS model of motivational design and Japanese high school students’ motivation for tasks.
