Chinese students experience many difficulties in developing communicative competence in English in their English as a Foreign Language (EFL) courses in China. This essay provides cultural information ...

Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Spring, 1992), pp. 208-219 (12 pages) The advent of "communicative" second-language teaching has implications not only ...

The Test of English for International Communication turns 30 this year. In three decades it has risen from humble beginnings to become one of the best-known tests in Japan. In December 1979, 3,000 ...