This article will particularly interest program and materials developers as well as teachers. It appears as part of MLJ Perspectives, "National Educational Policy." The author interrogates the limits of communicative language teaching by examining its practices in comparison to Hymes's definition of communicative competence. The author gives particular focus to the role of the communities in teaching and questions the neglect of the Communities Standard. There are recommendations for interdisciplinary constellations of courses, use of authentic documents, work in virtual communities, service learning, social networking in study abroad, personal reflection, and monitoring learner progress.#Technology #Curriculum #JournalArticle #Principalfocus #Teachers and teaching #Teachers and teaching #All #5.Communities #All #Research