ACTIVITY BASED APPROACH IN DEVELOPING ESP STUDENTS’ COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE
Keywords:
ESP learners, the activity-based approach, professional based approach.Abstract
The research article investigated the principles of activity-based approach in teaching English as a foreign language. The objectives of the study were to study the effective methods of activity-based approach in developing communicative competence of ESP students.
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