Introduction
As the world grows closer, the need for proficient English communication has resulted in an enormous demand for English teaching worldwide. Consequently, Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) emerged circa the 1970s and has then gradually become one of the most popular language teaching approaches that are widely used in a range of different institutions. In some countries, English was made the obligatory second language that any students have to learn besides other core subjects. Employers and employees alike are also required to master the language to some extent of proficiency, which nowadays has been regarded the requisite for career or business advancement in many fields. Since its introduction, CLT has been playing an essential
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Annotation
a) Article 1: Butler, Y. G. (2011). The Implementation of Communicative and Task-Based Language Teaching in the Asia-Pacific Region. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 31, 36–57.
In this article, the author synthesizes and draws some crucial conclusions from the research findings of an impressive amount of research carried out by various scholars on the use of both CLT and Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) in the Asia-Pacific region. However, due to the irrelevance to the topic of this paper, TBLT will be opted out. In her work, Butler chiefly pointed out some constraints hindering the progress of CLT which limit its effectiveness as well as proposed some alternatives towards further improving the outcomes of this
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