Vol. 16, Issue 1, Jul-Dec 2023

Page: 95-98

COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING IN LARGE CLASSROOMS

A.Vasantha Kumari

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It is the large classroom, which has remained an area of concern for the teacher of English for a long time. Thus, as we all know, is one of the major problems of our education system whether it is primary, secondary or tertiary level. It has been made solely responsible for the lack of quality in a class and the excuse for many ills. We, English teachers, often complain that students are not serious in their study. On the other hand, students find language classes boring. Through this paper, my purpose is to report an experiment that was con- ducted in a large class of First Year BA. compulsory English in SPT. Arts and Science College, Godhra in which the principles of Communicative language teaching were used.

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