Benefits of Communicative Tasks
Despite the inherent difficulties that all group work presents, beginning teachers should not avoid communicative activities. Brandl (2008:289) gives an excellent summary of empirical studies that demonstrate the benefits of learner-centered instruction (aka group work). In a nutshell, these studies indicate that student-centered communicative activities result in far more opportunities for negotiated meaning than teacher-centered activities.
Benefits of oral communicative tasks.
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