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Language and social distance
Sunday, May 18, 2008 
Most traditonal language teaching focused on grammar, tests, and structures, often to the exclusion of the way that people actually spoke the target language. This practice remains very much the focus of language teaching in China.
The structural approach contrasts with communicative language teaching (CLT). CLT goes beyond structures to look at how language functions: as a tool for communicat...
Original article from http://ken-carroll.com/2008/05/17/language-and-social-distance/
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