Lengua extranjera a conversation club: an interactional learning

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to determine the importance of an English conversational club as a leaming interactional strategy for students of English as a Foreign Language. The participants were students of Education from the course English 11 at the Universidad Simón Rodriguez in Caracas. This descriptive investigation helped reviewing the conception of conversational clubs as communicative spaces that allow students to be in contact with the target language in a genuine way. The results revealed that there are not communicative spaces for these apprentices, and that all the surveyed students consider a conversational club as a necessary leaming intera.:tional strategy.