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From http://workingtowardproficiency.blogspot.com/

Timothy Chavez, a relatively new language teacher, talks about his movement from teaching grammar to teaching thematic units with a communicative approach and the new joy he has in his job. He writes, "With thematic units, I feel like the students are acquiring the language as we discuss a painting, an artist, a product, a practice, a different perspective, a similar perspective, a musician, etc. as opposed to just learning grammar. The students and I are learning so much more, and class is fun! Another reason to be happy! We just have so much to talk about! I look around my class, and I watch all my students speaking with each other in Spanish, and I can't even keep up with all of the conversations. How can I not love my job when I am surrounded by that?!"

Read the full blog post at http://workingtowardproficiency.blogspot.com/2017/12/communicative-language-teaching-has.html