—
Simplifying : This technique is also useful, but can
lead to a distortion of natural speech or written English if we
are not especially careful when we simplify grammar or cer-
tain features of speech. In many cases it would be worthwhile
keeping those grammatical points which will certainly re-
quire further practice rather than simplifying them. Simplifi-
cation can be mainly applied to texts rather than audiovisual
material and affects the sentence structure, the lexical con-
tent and the grammatical structures. But as we mentioned
before everyone of these processes must be carried out very
carefully so that we do not turn authentic material into arti-
ficial language.
Breen and Candlin cited in Rutherford (1987, 149-150)
contend that, «In the past, it has seemed easier to somehow
separate the learner from the knowledge to be learned — to
