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Publication details [#10050]

Widdowson, Henry G. 1979. The teaching of English as communication. In Brumfit, Christopher J. and Keith Johnson, eds. The communicative approach to language teaching. Oxford University Press. pp. 117–121.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative competence, L2-teaching of | developing nation

Language as a subject

English, L2-acquisition of

Annotation

W. addresses the problem that students, and especially students in developing countries, who have received several years of formal English teaching, frequently remain deficient in the ability to actually use the language.