WHY DO WE TEACH DIFFERENT REGISTERS IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM?

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When we say that someone knows a language, first of all, we mean that he has a knowledge of the rules which control the formation of sentences and which regulate the way in which units of language combine together. He can produce an infinite number of sentences using the knowledge of rules. However, while knowledge of grammatical rules will help him in creating sentences, it doesn’t mean that they are appropriate for communication