Thus, learner errors are unavoidable. Language proficiency involves both comprehension and production. Comprehension abilities tend to precede and exceed productive abilities. Language is inextricably bound to culture. Language use requires an understanding of the cultural context within which communication takes place.
Language learning is complex.
Instruction takes into account individual learning styles and rates, and also attends to teaching process strategies for successful learning. The ability to perform with language is facilitated when students actively engage in meaningful, authentic, and purposeful language-learning tasks. In following the communicative-experiential approach, prescribed learning outcomes in this IRP are expressed in terms of tasks to be performed and not in terms of language items to be mastered. Assessment and evaluation of language acquisition focus on students' abilities to understand others and to express themselves comprehensibly and appropriately. They do not focus on the mastery of grammar for its own sake.