Chinese students' perceptions of communicative and non-communicative activities in EFL classroom

System

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 85-105

  Rao, Zhenhui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chinese students; CLT; Culture; Difficulties in adopting CLT; Education settings; EFL learners; Learner behaviour; Perceptions of communicative and non communicative activities; Teaching English in China; Traditional teaching methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 10644291738     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0346-251X(01)00050-1     Document Type: Article

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