Explain, as concisely as possible, five or six main differences between communicative and more traditional approaches to language teaching and learning.

... Explain, as concisely as possible, five or six main differences between communicative and more traditional approaches to language teaching and learning. Introduction English language teaching has undergone a tremendous change throughout its history, especially during the twentieth century. This has been partly due to the recognition of changes in the kind of proficiency learners need, such as a rise of oral proficiency focus as opposed to reading comprehension, along with a change in the nature of language learning. Communicative Language Teaching, the latest of all approaches and methods we shall be dealing with in this essay, has largely resulted from the need for communication; it focuses on the teaching of this aspect of language through actual communication and not merely the theory of it. This is what distinguishes it from the rest of the approaches. Let's look at this differentiation in more detail, though. C.L.T The Communicative Approach's origins are to be

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