To what extent does IELTS encourage communicative language teaching in Chinese IELTS classes?

Start date: 1 February 2009
End date: 31 March 2009
Primary investigator: Dr Richard Badger

This study investigates how teachers across a range of institutions in the China characterise IELTS preparation classes and examines teachers' practices in IELTS classes within one institutions university and the cognitions (Borg, 2005) that underpin these practices