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I quite enjoyed this article. One of the things I loved about it was opening up the criticism behind communicative based and task based teaching. For example, both communicative and task based language teaching have some goal behind them i.e. only one goal to provide success in the classroom, yet, it eliminates other options of teaching. Having one set option of teaching a language, or one set theory clearly makes a remaining variety of resources disappear. Also, I believe as it also says in the article, that language is not something that should be studied from a purely syntactical or morphological approach, as there are many other forces shaping language (social, political, economical), which, to me, makes language seem even the more important. I also was a little discouraged by the use of "post-method." I understand the argument, but I also think that taking words such as method and attaching post before it further complicates a problem. The same can be said with "modern," and "post-modern."