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In a contemporary English language classroom designed around the principles of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), a teacher prioritizes fluency-based interactive tasks over traditional structural drills. However, a novice teacher questions whether grammatical accuracy should be completely ignored in favor of spontaneous communication. According to established pedagogical frameworks for second language acquisition, how should an effective educator balance fluency and accuracy within a communicative framework?
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In the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach, the primary objective is to develop learners' communicative competence rather than mere mechanical mastery of grammar. However, contemporary pedagogy recognizes that fluency and accuracy are complementary rather than contradictory. Effective educators utilize a balanced approach where meaning-focused tasks (fluency) are paired with conscious attention to linguistic form (accuracy) through contextualized feedback, recast techniques, and deferred error correction, ensuring learners can express themselves meaningfully while gradually refining their syntactic and lexical precision.
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