Teaching communication through communication

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to propose a combination of teaching procedures and techniques that, while involving the student in communication from the very first lesson, will help him to master the structures of the language. It is based on the assumption that no group of students shares the same learning strategies, however brilliant or scientific they may seem to us. Consequently, we suggest procedures — communicative oral presentaron, guided/free oral communicative training— that could be defined as thoroughly communicative side by side with others that belong to more traditional approaches to language teaching —structural explanation, controlled practice. We believe that ¡t ¡s such a combination what will enable our students to communicate both successfully and accurately.