摘要：This article investigates the nature of speaking in a foreign language and the teachability of speaking skills, an area which with the advent of the communicative method has received considerable attention in the last two decades. The paper is an attempt to explore what competence in speaking involves and how it can be best acquired. After a short review of what native speakers know and do when they speak, we will briefly explore the notions of fluency, formulaic language, and communicative strategies, and then focus on the issue of teachability of communicative strategies
