Communicative acts per minute and occupation of the communicative space are pragmatic aspects of the subjects' communication as proposed by Fernandes (2000).
Interactive, communicative, sharable, engaging and expressive technologies are on the rise.
This just isn't enough to build the level of retention needed to facilitate an interactive communicative approach and to break down students' inhibitions with speaking.
Relying on language theories, research findings and experiences, language teachers and educators developed teaching strategies and created learning environments that engaged learners in active and interactive communicative language activities.
The level of communicative abilities (communicative acts and occupation of the communicative space) were kept stable comparing the moment before the beginning of the research and after its end.
The significant gains obtained in perseverative errors and responses are therefore related to poor flexibility but not necessarily to occupation of the communicative space and communicative acts.
However, as Priya's story illustrates, many English teachers do not use the textbook, perhaps because they are not confident in using interactive communicative strategies, or perhaps because they focus only on teaching towards the national examination.
After the end of this research, participants presented a general mean of communicative acts per minute of 8.26 and a general mean of occupation of the communicative space of 73.3%.
Before the intervention of the present study, in 2012 and 2013, the subjects presented a general mean of communicative acts per minute of 7.88 and a general mean of occupation of the communicative space of 76.6%.
Therefore, although cognitive flexibility is not an isolated ability entailing a set of other abilities, the results obtained regarding perseverative responses and errors shall not be involved in gains in communicative abilities being related to poor flexibility but not necessarily to occupation of the communicative space and communicative acts.
Our study illuminates how the addition of language barriers into the communicative space adds further layers of complexity.
