Research Paper On Chilean Culture

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The chilean culture is a social one in which social relationships are considered important in the development of people. Taking this into consideration my theory of language is based in a connection between the interactional model and the sociocultural model.
The interaction models focuses on the chemistry between those in the communication process and sees language as a vehicle for the creation and upholding of this relation. They way it includes the sociocultural model is that now this language that serves a vehicle has a context, and its context is focused on the social and cultural environment in which the students will be interacting.

With these the development and creation of the language will be focused on the students. In how they

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