Communicative Competences

In the last decades communicative competences in a foreign language have become a necessity. You need to speak a foreign language either to study abroad, to find a job or just watch a movie or understand the music you listen to. Learners are taught to be communicators. You do not simply become a communicator if you acquire vocabulary and grammar rules. Language learning is complex and difficult, especially when the language is acquired later in life as a second language. The learning process consists of acquiring a language system, rather than learning a series of disconnected components. Receptive comprehension becomes increasingly important with each grade level because students are required to do more reading and to integrate the information acquired with new knowledge presented by the teacher who has to find the best strategies to help students advance to more complex language structures.