Native speakers often highly value good pronunciation. Repetition helps things stick. Comprehensible output can become comprehensible input. You need exposure to language in a variety of social settings. Language is used interactively in conversation.
Language has social meaning.
If you want to communicate with speakers of a language, you will be more motivated to learn it. The audiolingual method of language learning, widely used in the seventies, was one production-driven approach. A similar and more recent book using substantially the same approach is Marshall 1989 . This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library , Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International , 1999.