By Vocabulary, Communicative approach

I think Communicative approach has a relation with other methods. When I began to learn English, my teacher used to explain vocabulary and grammar from a text, then we mimick her to read it. Before teaching, she had an introduction which was very interesting. She had a good accent of a speaker of...

I have taught Callan method for two years, and before that communicative approach. The Callan method is good for vocabulary not English. Most students learn a lot of words, but when they need to speak, independently, they have troubles. That is why I think there are split opinions about it.