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Di Pietro, Robert J. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1975
This article stresses the idea that teaching communicative competence and the ability to deal with a variety of language situations should be the goal of foreign language teaching, with grammar instruction in a secondary position. Teaching by means of "dialogues with options" is discussed and sample dialogues for Italian instruction are given.…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialogs (Literary), Italian, Language Instruction