THE ROLE OF COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN MASTERING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
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communication, competence, speech activity, authentic materials, mnemonic devices, target language, idioms, proverbs.Abstract
The paper aims at showing the importance of communication skills in mastering a foreign language and offers some strategies to be used while developing communication skills in the language classroom. In the article some attitudes towards developing communication skills in language classrooms by experts are discussed. Moreover, the problems associated with teaching communication skills are discussed and the reasons pose those problems are pointed out. As language develops as a means of communication, communication is also an important part of language learning, they are indispensible from each other which should be equally emphasized in teaching languages. In the article some techniques are suggested to be involved in language classrooms to achieve language proficiency and improve the student knowledge regarding the target language.
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