Combine various approaches when teaching.

I do believe that, there wouldn't have been a variety of methods & approaches to employ in ESL/EFL classes, unless students vary in the way they would be approached. I do also believe that an ESL teacher can make use of more than one method or approach in the same class according to the needs of the context of the material he/she would explain in class. This context, I think, would be the basis on which a teacher would choose one approach rather than the other, or involving more than one approach or method in the same class.
Personally, the electric approach, in which one would combine mainly the communicative language teaching method with other approaches, would be the approach that would appeal most to me. This approach focuses on combining the fluency & acquisition of the language together with accuracy of using it, which is the aim of ESL classes. What makes that method effective is making students use the language correctly, when put in various situations. One should start with the communicative approach as it involves creating real life situations, in which students are asked to respond using the different functions of the language. The students are taught those functions & left independently to choose the most suitable responses for the given situations. Of course, their response would be monitored & corrected when needed. Through that way, communication& fluency are granted for students. The drawback of this communication would be the lack of grammar teaching. I think that is when one can merge another method, like the direct one for example, after allowing good practice time for the use of the language through communication. One can, for instance, draw his/her students' attention to the mistakes that were noticed while monitoring their communication & then help them in correcting those mistakes, giving them the right form of the language they failed to use. Thus, communication is stressed first as one of the most useful approaches, yet other approaches