Large Language Models versus Natural Language Understanding and Generation

In recent years, the process humans adopt to learn a foreign language has moved from the strict "Grammar –Translation" method, which is based mainly on grammar and syntax rules, to more innovative processes, resulting to the more modern "Communicative approach". As its name states, this approach focuses on the coherent communication with native speakers and the cultivation of oral skills, without taking into consideration, at least at the first stages, the rules that govern the language.