Conclusion:
Students, thus, can be exposed to various grammatical items through their contextualization in various real life situations. As discussed above a teacher can create situations of different sorts to provide practice and exposure to the students in learning grammatical rules in order to achieve communicative competence. Hymes, Searle, Austin, Halliday and Leech who are the exponents of Functional Approaches in one or the other way stressed the situational use of language. Critics of the situational Approach who criticize the situations created in the class room as mechanical situations and not the real life situations, forget that even if the class room situations are divorced from the spontaneously and naturally created real life situations, they have enough potential to provide exposure needed for learning a language. According to Professor Krishnaswamy, “Learners know what to say in the mother tongue in a given situation; they do it everyday……In order to do similar things in English, what they need is words in English, and understanding of how the words in English are put together to form larger units, and meaningful practice in contexts in which English is required to be used in India” (Krishnaswamy1995:33).