Abstract:Communicating effectively is an important life skill that can influence career and personal life, but communicating using a language that is not one’s mother tongue can be complicated, especially for a learner. Since practice makes perfect, one of the best ways to improve communication is through communication itself. This chapter explores the importance of communication in language acquisition by looking at the developments in learning approaches and why communicative language teaching is now so popular. In a… Show more
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