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This paper describes a learning procedure which utilizes real communication activities to help students gain communicative abilities. It is an adaptation of the scrambled sentence type of exercise in which each student memorizes one sentence of a story for which the proper sequence is not known. With each student being the sole source of one piece of information, his sentence, the story is put back together strictly through verbal interaction of the class. Many otherwise difficult-toteach grammatical items are learned and pronunciation problems overcome surprisingly easily and quickly, without the direct aid of a teacher. The reasons for the success of this technique are discussed along with some of the ways the procedure can be extended to include related skill areas of ESL.
Robert E. Gibson (Sun,) studied this question.