Communicative Language Teaching in China: Progress and Resistance

By Liming Yu. 2001

237 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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In Education

1. Yuko Goto Butler
2. Qi Luxia
3. M. Chang
4. Zan Chen
5. J. Goswami
6. Christine Goh
7. Sung Won Kim
8. Jianda Liu

In Language and Linguistics

1. Yuko Goto Butler
2. Qi Luxia
3. M. Chang
4. Zan Chen
5. J. Goswami
6. Christine Goh
7. Larry Vandergrift
8. Yiching Chen

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Yuko Goto Butler
2. Qi Luxia
3. M. Chang
4. Zan Chen
5. J. Goswami
6. Christine Goh
7. Larry Vandergrift
8. Yiching Chen

Citations in the corpus

• The Implementation of Communicative and Task-Based Language Teaching in the Asia-Pacific Region (2011, background): “For example, in China, there was a strong resistance among teachers to employing CLT in classrooms, and a heated debate arose over its applicability and effectiveness (Hu, 2002a, 2005; Yu, 2001).”
• Is testing an efficient agent for pedagogical change? Examining the intended washback of the writing task in a high‐stakes English test in China (2007, background): “…was shared by other scholars who described the Chinese approach to foreign language learning as concentration on intensive learning of grammatical structures, rote learning of vocabulary, and lack of attention to more communicative skills (Dzau, 1990; Harvey, 1990; Cortazzi & Jin, 1996; Yu, 2001).”
• Teaching oral English in higher education: challenges to EFL teachers (2011, background): “New textbooks are produced and new teaching methods such as communicative language teaching is being widely promoted (Hu 2002; Liao 2004; Yu 2001; Zheng and Davison 2008).”
• Developing alternative frameworks for exploring intercultural learning: a critique of Hofstede's cultural difference model (2009, background): “…of key educational theorists that have been influential in the West, in Asia and in other settings reveals more similarities than differences (see for example, Brislin and Yoshida 1994; Cheng and Wang 2004; Gu 2005; Kai-Ming et al. 1999; Kember 2000; Spencer-Oatey 2005; Watkins 2000; Yu 2001).”
• Factors Affecting the Implementation of Communicative Language Teaching in Taiwanese College English Classes. (2011, background): “The implementation of CLT has encountered problems and resistance in EFL classrooms (Ellis, 1996; Li, 1998; Liao, 2000; Yu, 2001).”