It is believed students should develop their
communicative competence since the main aim of
learning a foreign language is to communicate in
an effective way. In order to do so, teachers play
a pivotal role when planning and delivering their
lessons which are expected to develop students’
competences in the language.
What are the four main elements of the
communicative competence framework presented
by Canale and Swain (1980) which is the
foundation of many studies on English language
teaching like Almeida Filho (2005)?