Strategies to achieve the FCE level: the exploitation of the communicative approach in the secondary education.

Abstract

It is widely known that nowadays the contact with foreign languages is becoming more and more usual in our daily routine. Travelling, working experiences and also the media put you in contact, even without realising, with the English language. But how do we get to achieve that English knowledge? The way in which we are put in contact with the English language is changing from date to date, the strategies and methodologies are becoming more and more modern and sophisticated, appropriated to the last educational modifications, and overall, the strategy is trying to motivate those secondary students who lately are going to face the real work environment, where the domain of English is crucial in every sector and position, and, which we have to properly adequate to the standards of the European Union in order to acquire the same levels of English proficiency. This project also includes an identification of overall trends and areas for further development. In particular, it is argued that English Language Education innovation work needs to become more informed by many of the concepts and procedures which the English language education innovation management literature contains.