Communicative Language Teaching in China: Progress and Resistance

Abstract

n It has been more than two decades since the communicative language teaching (CLT) approach was introduced to the Chinese foreign lan- guage community, affecting tens of millions of Chinese learners of English. In an arena previously dominated by the grammar-translation approach, these 20 years have witnessed profound changes in foreign language teaching. However, a variety of constraints have inhibited the adoption of CLT in China.