The problem is actually not the communicative approach——Anthony Bruton reflects on Eleanor Watts' article 'Cocking a snook at the communicative approach'

I must begin by admitting unashamedly that I still see the communicative approach in foreign language and second language instruction(hereafter FL and SL respectively)more of a challenge than an imposition,a problem or even a shibboleth. Under the term communicative approach(CA),I would include not only the goal of communicating,but also some experience of communication in the classroom as the means to