Communicative Activities. Challenges and Possible Solutions
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productive skills, speaking, writing, practice, communicative activities, interactionAbstract
The purpose of this article is to provide some guidelines on the requirements of effective communicative activities. Since students have numerous sources of exposure to English outside school, their receptive skills are generally better than the productive ones, which take more time and effort to develop. In principle, there is a wide range of activities that support the development of speaking and writing skills, but not all of them are equally successful. The article describes some of the challenges encountered by teachers when designing communicative activities and suggests possible ways to overcome them.
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