Daily Excerpt: How to Improve Your Foreign Language Immediately (Shekhtman); Communication Rules
Excerpt from How to Improve Your Foreign Language Immediately: Foreign Language Communication Tools Definition of Communication Rules Yet everything discussed above—the acquisition of the language, the knowledge of the language—have nothing to do with communication tools. Communication tools are the combination of skills which allow a speaker to use most effectively the level of foreign language in his or her command. To make this definition more clear, let us imagine two groups of students with the same level of knowledge of foreign language. Let us imagine also that these students have come to the host country and are capable of observing the quality of their communication with native speakers. We do not have to have any great imagination to know that the members of the two groups will be quite different one from another and in striking ways. Everyone has seen representatives of each of these groups. So, let’s see what happens with these two ...