Many among us. practitioners as well as theoreticians, deep down share the feeling that though oc.Jds against us are many. the devil itself that causes most of our Iailure in leaching English to the speakers of other languages is none hut the insufficient exposure of our students to real language use. Those of us with EFL experience arc deeply sympathetic with this verdict amt find it quite justiflnnlc. Therefore. many share the feeling that, other thing:,; being equal, if we expose our students to real language use and thus increase their learning urnc, we will have helter results.