The Push Toward Communication.

Abstract

It is significant that the title of this chapter is Push Toward Communication and not Push To Communication, for the foreign-language profession as a whole has been remarkably unsuccessful at achieving the communicative goals that we and our student clients have established. Even so, our conspicuous lack of success is not for want of trying. In our earnestness to do all that we can to teach languages and to help others learn them, we have adopted many of the strategies and methodologies that have been proposed and defended over the years. The most recent buzz word to hypnotize the profession— and the one that will occupy our attention throughout this chapter—is communicative competence. We begin by commenting briefly on how this term seems to be used in the literature and on what assumptions it seems to be based. We then consider what some of the implications of these ideas may be for foreign-language instructors.

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