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>>My preference is still
for the original linguistic

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anthropological framework of
communicative language learning

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and what that really meant.

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And that meant language use.

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How does a community really use
language to communicate ideas?

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And how do the different
aspects of language contribute

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to making meaning that is
shared with a community?

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I think that those notions,
from Dell Hymes for example,

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or from the Sauvignon
at the very beginning

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adopted by people who claim

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of the 70's have been
adopted by people who claim

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to do communicative
language learning

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and there were textbooks
that talked

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about communicative
language learning ,

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many of those textbooks
ultimately still had a

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grammatical syllabus and
they merely placed a couple

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of sentences or questions on
there which were open ended

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and that covered the
communicative language learning

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part, because communicative
meant;

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you have information
I don't know,

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I have information you don't
know, we'll share that,

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that is communicative, because
we don't know what the other

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people will answer,
but the point was still

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grammar practice.

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And there was very
little context

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from real life language use,
there was very little use

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of descriptive grammar,
there was very little use

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of language use with
all its failures

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and words even among
native speakers.

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Everything had to be
perfect; the models that were

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in those textbooks
where very stylized

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and they use prescriptive
grammar models and again mostly

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to teach grammar, or a
set of vocabulary items.

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So what I try to use is
I take authentic text

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to the extent possible
or if not authentic texts,

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then at least plausible
texts; things that would come

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up possibly in everyday
conversations.

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So my students will probably
not be able to recreate a,

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buying ice cream in
Germany because many

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of them will not go there,

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but at least they can
recreate something

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that could be plausible and
if they should go over there,

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they'll have practiced that.

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But it's the whole speech
event of buying ice cream,

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so grammar is almost subservient
to that, lexicon is subservient

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to that, the sociolinguistic
rules are subservient

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to that, cultural knowledge,

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all of it collectively
creates language use

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and so the focus is always
what would native speakers do

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with that particular language,
speech events, language events

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and start that as
a starting point.

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So language as language
use and for me

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that is what communicative
language practice is.