Is the Communicative Approach a useful one for all proficiency levels, particularly for beIs the Communicative Approach a useful one for all proficiency levels, particularly for beginners？

Generallyspeaking, the Communicative Approach can be a useful teaching method for all proficiency levels． The Communicative Approach emphasizes that the goal of language learning is communicative competence． We can make use of whatever learning and teaching techniques which help the learners develop their communicative competence． On condition that we follow the basic principles of the Communicative Approach, such as information gap activities, meaning-based com-munication, authentic materials, our language learners would achieve the goal of mastering a foreign language． Even if with beginners, we can still use the approach．