One of the greatest characteristics of human being is his ability to communicate complicated messages concerning every aspect of his life. We all achieve this exchange of information mainly by means of either visual or auditory stimuli. In this theme we are concerned...
In English there is no a univocal system of orthographic reference for all the different sounds such as in Spanish. This is due to the evolution of the phonological system and the evolution of the written system which took place in different centuries....
No deben ser considerados como definitivos o excluyentes del lenguaje oral, sino que se ofrecen como una herramienta de sustitución del mismo, aunque en algunos sujetos si se pueden convertir en la única forma de comunicación debido a su grado de deficiencia...
An ability to manipulate grammatical structure does not have any potential for expressing meaning unless words are used. We talk about the importance of “choosing your words carefully” in certain situation, but we are less concerned about choosing structures...
The structures of a language, the rules governing the changes of their forms and the combination of elements composing it, constitute the grammar of that language. If our intention is to learn a language, we cannot just learn its vocabulary but we will have to...
It is very well known that language is a purely human activity , so much so that Aitchison entitles her work about Pycholinguistics “The articulate Mammal” states that “language involves the communication of ideas from the mind of speaker to the mind of a listener”...
Current Communicative approaches to second/ foreign language teaching advise to try to replicate the spontaneous process of L1 acquisition , as far as possible and we consider that this is the approach to our future teaching task implied by the title of this theme...
If we consider that level is what students can actually do with the language, it will become obvious that even at the early stages students can in fact do a great deal with the language: They can identify sounds (vowels. consonants, intonation, stress, rhythm), certain...
Campbell (1992) has stated that the main principle in learner‑centred teaching is that all class activities can be done using information that the learners themselves bring to the class. It is true that humanistic approaches[1] also accept active pupil involvement...
All class activities can be done using information that learners themselves bring to the class. This methodology involves pupils active partaking, and every single activity is based on the knowledge and experience of our pupils...