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Teaching for Communicative Competence: Reality and Illusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Alan Maley
Alan Maley
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The British Council, Paris
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A communicative approach to language learning necessarily entails a commitment to reality. While it is quite possible to teach language as a system in a completely self-contained way, once we begin to try to teach language for use we are inevitably involved in the complexity of human interaction. We focus not on what learners know about the language system but on what they can do with it in the real world beyond the classroom.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , Fall 1980 , pp. 10 - 16
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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