NCERT says teaching approaches should be:

1. NCERT reviews approaches such as Whole Language, task-based and communicative work. 2. It says approaches and methods need not be exclusive. 3. They may be mutually supportive within a broad cognitive philosophy. 4. So one-at-a-time, textbook-set or fixed use is not its view. **Why not the others:** Using one approach at a time, letting the textbook decide and fixing one approach for all schools all treat the approaches as exclusive. _Source: NCERT, Position Paper of the National Focus Group on Teaching of English (2006), section "3.2.2 English at the initial level", PDF p. 4 (ncert.nic.in/pdf/focus-group/english.pdf)_