Title: Towards and integrated approach to foreing language learning
Abstract: This article is a proposal on How to develop advanced students� linguistic. Strategic and
sociolinguistic competences when learning English as a foreign language. To begin with, it
states the general guidelines to be taken into account for any advanced language level.
Then it points out the importance of communicative competence in any foreign language
learning process; this is reflected on the communicative approach to the teaching of
language, in which linguistic skills and communicative abilities are brought into a closer
association with each other. Subsequently, this paper establishes specific parameters to
follow in order to develop students competences in a foreign language classroom, based
on the theme-based teaching model that places equal value to content and language
objectives. Finally, some conclusions and pedagogical implications are stated in relation to
the impact of this proposal
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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