Teachers at Chinese at the Chinese Culture University use New Wave 3, a book that uses both the Communicative and Natural Approaches to language acquisition. After the students have gone through presentations, controlled oral practices, and language analysis, they proceed to the role plays that play a prominent part in each chapter. The author has found that there are various pitfalls and shortcomings in the book and in instructors presentation that can lead to a failure by the student to effectively acquire a true understanding of English I will first discuss the general disparagement of role playing in the current EFL literature; then I will discuss some of the problems found in New Wave 3 and proffer some solutions to these problems.
