El diálogo en el aprendizaje de un idioma extranjero

This study emphasizes the importance of dialogue in learning a foreign language. First, it contextualizes the concepts of dialogue, otherness and positive interdependence to then demonstrate their importance in current didactics. Through these concepts, we can promote teaching that is not limited only to acquiring linguistic or communicative competence, but also has a very important added value for the contemporary world, since it tends toward comprehensive education of the 62 Revista de Artes y Humanidades UNICA / Volumen 10 No 2 Mayo-Agosto 2009 Recibido: Enero 2009 Aceptado: Febrero 2009 individual. In this didactic model, dialogue seems to be not only an instrument that helps to achieve the expected teaching program goals, but an instrument and educational goal at the same time.