The second basic skill this paper deals with is speaking, undoubtedly important in a
second language acquisition process:
Speaking is one of the most difficult skills language learners have to face. In spite of
this, it has traditionally been forced into the background while we, teachers of English,
have spent all our classroom time trying to teach our students how to write, to read and
sometimes even to listen in a L2 because grammar has a long written tradition (Bueno,
Madrid and Mclaren, 2006: 321).