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University Of Nariño
Introduction
Along the history of the EFL teaching metods, the most
applied method has been Grammar-Translation; however,
later Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) became one
of the newest known methods, and it has produced a
controversy about which one of these two methods is more
suitable.
As English is a foreign language in Colombia, it has been
taught through metalinguistic explanations or Grammar
Translation Method (GTM). Students in Colombia have
obtained in average a sufficient basic level of English
according to the results of Pruebas Saber 11.
Introduction
Metalinguistic explanations:
the discourse by mean one
lets the foreign language
gramar be understood in an
explicit way, making use of
itself.
Communicative Competence