Publications
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. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
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.