2.3.7 The researcher therefore adopts such methods and techniques which provide an
opportunity to the learners to enhance their communicative competence. But the question
remains, how to provide learners with ‘the communicative intent’ to make them learn the
actual meaning of the expression, as well as the correctness of expression. An interaction
actually occurs, when there is a ‘communication’ on a certain subject i.e. one of the
interactants should be unaware and the other, aware. The one, who is aware, conveys
some information to the unaware(s). As Lyons (1968: 413) says and Keith Johnson quotes
(Communicative approaches and communicative processes; Psycholinguistics &
Language Teaching Methodology, pg. 426), Lyons (1968:413) ‘‘if the hearer knows in
advance that the speaker will inevitably produce a particular utterance in a particular
context, then it is obvious that the utterance will give him no information when it occurs;
no ‘communication’ will take place’’.