Students’ Perception of Interacting with Native Speakers
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https://doi.org/10.15359/rl.2-72.7Keywords:
English as a foreign language, language learning, native speakerAbstract
This analysis delves into learners’ experience when interacting with native speakers. These encounters reinforce the students’ learning process, going beyond classroom activities or one dialect. The main goal of this systematization of learners’ experience is integrating interaction with English native speakers into the course syllabus. This enables learners to acquire the target language spontaneously and develop their listening, speaking and reading skills. Some of the students’ difficulties are presented along with strategies to overcome them.
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