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verlapping skills and meaningful communication 
eat segments. They overlap. They 
ow in and out of each other. You may emphasize speaking in a particular activity, but at the same time you 
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complication of meaningful communication. In Chapter Two you read about the traditional approaches to 
language teaching (Grammar Translation, Direct Method, Audiolingual Method), which attempt to manage 
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language learning as interaction, elements of unpredictability naturally arise as the teacher opens the lesson 
meaningful communication rather than focusing on practice of a grammar rule. 
group of Volunteers from Honduras were talking about the reality gap between what students were 
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she was teaching the present simple tense, with "I eat my breakfast at 7 
o'clock" as her base sentence. As she was drilling the class, she noticed that despite the correctness of their 
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But those kids talked non-stop for a year. They talked about themselves and their lives 
in the barrio. They translated jokes that never worked in English, and they didn't care. Neither did I. They 
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orking in an interactive mode means giving your students the opportunity to talk about themselves in 
ersonally relevant ways. In doing this you will be adding a new dimension to the language learning process. 
intellectual and appealing to the emotions as well. Whether your students are 
dults, adolescents, or children, they will all respond to your interest in them. But working with the dimension 
irst of all you must feel comfortable in talking about feelings and opinions. 
held values with those 
ho are not members of the immediate family.