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Sidwell, Duncan – British Journal of Language Teaching, 1984
Suggests that there are three phases in the foreign language teaching/learning process through which the learner progresses from dependence on the teacher to independence in utterance. These phases are: (1) presentation, (2) precommunicative activity, and (3) communicative activity. The second phase, which is often passed over, is discussed in…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Learning Processes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning