Communicative and task-based language teaching: where are we now?

2025/10/20 by Mark Feng Teng, Edward Zhisheng Wen, E Wen +1
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning #Second Language Acquisition and Learning #Second Language Learning and Teaching

paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/09571736.2025.2572673

openalex publication_date 2025/10/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/21 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

This special issue of The Language Learning Journal commemorates the contribution of Professor William Littlewood to the fields of communicative language teaching (CLT) and task-based language teac...

Citations

• Communicative and task-based language teaching in East Asian classrooms
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