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dilemmas

Strategic competence vs. language acquisition

August 10, 2025September 18, 2010 by Luiz Otávio

I have just come back from a 5-day stay in Buenos Aires, which is hands down one of my favorite cities in the world. Despite their not always undeserved reputation for grumpiness, my Portenho friends have always been gracious with my feeble, embarrassing attempts at Spanish.

Categories ELT methodology Tags dilemmas, interlanguage, methodology, pronunciation 6 Comments
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