[Mr. E English]

Hi Emile,

Yes, I would agree with you that the communicative method does favour fluency, while the audio-lingual and grammar translation approaches both favour accuracy. But in many ways considering the 'accuracy / fluency' question from the view point of teaching approaches and methodologies is somewhat problematic.

Teaching approaches are based on theories of language acquisition; the use of the teaching method supposedly to best facilitate language learning. To this end any particular approach or methodology is concerned with language production in terms of both accuracy and fluency – once more, not an either / or choice.