. the major British Approach to teaching English as a foreign language, while Audiolingualism was dominant in America. In Situational Language Teaching, language was taught by practising basic. Europe's major areas of activity. It sponsored international conferences on language teaching, published monographs and books about language teaching. The need to articulate and develop alternative. communicative language teaching is accepted by many linguists and language teachers as an effective approach and is hailed as the dominant theoretical model in ELT, no matter what teaching situation may